Light menu after surgery=what?


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This would truly depend on what kind of surgery you had.

Obviously if you had say, knee surgery, then they would probably be more lenient with what you are allowed to eat.

If you had bowel surgery, small intestinal or gastric surgery then they would probably not want you to eat at all--they will just want to start you slow.

Basically they do not want you to regress, and sometimes eating can cause a worse condition than you already have--and we are talking worse than just simply vomiting.

Since it does sound like it was a relatively minor surgery, a light meal means you should eat something that is not too fatty and not overeat. Eat enough so that you are simply not hungry anymore, and so that you don't vomit it up (to prove you can "tolerate" it). Stay with this diet and slowly progress to your regular diet at the discretion of your doctor. Be sure to ask because that's what they are there for.

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That you don't puke your guts up, thats what it means




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