Friday, December 10, 2010

Liberal Bland Diet

A liberal bland diet is highly individualized diet that is basically a regular diet with the omission of foods known to cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
- The traditional bland diet was originally designed to eliminate those foods or food additives known as chemically or mechanically irritating. Currently, bland diet is now liberalized and only those foods found to clinically irritate the stomach or esophagus are avoided.
- By advising the clients to keep records of the types amounts of foods and drinks consumed, food intolerance can easily be pinpointed. Meanwhile, while the dietitian has not assessed the patient's food tolerance, a more restricted bland diet will be given.

When is it used?
- As a progression step in post-op diet advancement
- Esophagitis
- Gastrointestinal reflux disease(GERD)
- Peptic ulcer disease (PUD)

How adequate is the diet?
 The liberal bland diet is essentially a regular diet.

Suggested Meal Plan 
 Same as the regular diet but use only those foods that arr permitted. If snack is desired, bedtime snack should be avoided.

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