What food category would you put this in? Are there any technical or professional terms for this type of diet?
2006-09-15 05:16:58 · 10 answers · asked by ? 4 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Also they give you the red ones so when you vomit it looks like you vomit blood.
This is so they can tell your story to the gastroenterologist (tummy doctor) who might get worried that you are vomiting blood and then put a telescope in your tummy to look and find where you bleed from.
This sort of diet is called: clear fluids
It is something that tends to rest the bowel - as opposed to "free fluids" which includes milky stuff and soupy stuff. Clear fluid diet is water or cordial, jelly, ice/ ice blocks, clear soup (boullion)
It stirs up the tummy minimally and is used if they want to rest you and stop you getting tummy pains. Other diets (free fluids, light diet and all the rest) can cause your liver to secrete bile to digest fats, your pancreas to secrete enzymes to digest proteins and makes your bowel start up. Just clear fluids only can sometimes avoid this and turn these processes off a bit so your tummy won't be so sore.
Sometimes even THAT is too much and then they ask you to "fast" ie. not eat ANYTHING.
2006-09-15 05:19:55 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liquid diet
because if you eat any solids it really hurts
on the way back up
2006-09-15 05:19:23 · answer #2 · answered by summer_lebowski 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jello is binding and easy to digest, popsicles are easy to digest too plus it gets needed energy in the form of sugar and liquids into your system without overburdening the digestive system.
2006-09-15 05:18:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liquid diet...They liquify easier and that makes them easier to throw up...As gross as it sounds it's easier to throw up a liquid than a solid....
2006-09-15 05:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by tonaandmaylea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it is a "food" that you can eat, that is equal to having a clear liquid diet
2006-09-15 05:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by cooker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is something light and cool, and you need something to throw up. Dry heaves do worse damage to your system than a normal barf
2006-09-15 05:21:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
liquid diet. in order to keep patients hydrated.
2006-09-15 05:21:08 · answer #7 · answered by dorky_goddess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easier to clean up?
2006-09-15 05:18:48 · answer #8 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its because its water based, helps cool you down and rehydrate u!!
2006-09-15 05:19:57 · answer #9 · answered by derailed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause they are bland food and they won't upset your tummy,
2006-09-15 05:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by redjellybean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋