Clear Liquid Diet

Aim:

To provide an oral source of fluids and small amount of calories and electrolytes in order to prevent dehydration, relieve thirst, maintain water balance, and reduce caloric residue to a minimum.

Characteristic:

Inadequate in nutritional essentials. Foods included are liquid or become liquid at body temperature, leaves no residue, non-distending, non-irritating, and non-stimulating to peristaltic action. This Diet is also called Low-Residue Diet which made of clear liquid foods which leaves no residue in the G.I. tract.

Indications for Use:

Illness or surgery accompanied by marked intolerance to foods, acute inflammatory conditions of the G.I. tract, in conditions when it is necessary to minimize fecal material, pre-operative and post-operative cases, acute diarrhea, vomiting and intestinal obstruction. 

Feeding Administration:

It should be used for 1 to 2 days or 24 to 48 hours only. Given every 2 to 3 hours, when it is necessary, not more than 300ml. per feeding.

Foods Allowed:

Clear, fat free broths, strained juices, tea, black coffee, salabat, plain gelatin, plain sugar, hard candies, ginger ale, non-carbonated soft drinks, honey, corn syrup, egg white.

Foods to be Avoided:

All solid foods, milk and milk products, fruit shakes, soup cooked with fat and creams, fruit juices with residue.

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