Department Of Nutrition and Dietetics

Overview

The nutrition and dietetics department at Sahyadri Hospital is the one-stop solution for curing all kinds of health illnesses. We provide comprehensive care and diet service to both out-patients and in-patients. Our department focuses on increasing awareness among patients about the benefits of following nutrition and diet. The goal here is to promote a healthy lifestyle in people to cure and prevent disease. Moreover, the professionals help strengthening and developing healthy practices to encourage good health.

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Our nutritionist collaborates with different healthcare departments like endocrinology and nephrology to ensure a faster recovery. They also work with oncology, cardiovascular disease, gastroenterology, critical care, etc., for better care. Nutrition therapy offered by our professionals plays a vital role in preventing complications and conditions of postoperative infections.

We have a team of high-trained dieticians who specialize in assessing the patient’s nutritional condition, calculate their requirements, and plan the diet according to it. Moreover, the hospital takes into account the quantity and quality of food that the patients are consuming. The different types of diet plan that Sahyadri offers are:

• Soft diet: This diet is easily digestible and soft, mainly recommended to those who can’t digest highly seasoned and regular textured food. It serves as an excellent help to people who have recently gone through surgery and recovering from the process. 
• Regular or average diet: A regular or normal diet is a healthy meal plan that our healthcare professionals provide to people containing every variety of healthy food. 
• Clear liquid diet: Clear liquid diet consists of a diet plan containing liquid only, i.e., broth, water, and plain gelatin. The patient consuming this do not face any problem digesting it or leaving any residue in the intestinal tract. 
• Semisolid diet: The dietician mainly gives this type of diet four weeks before gastric bypass surgery. The diet plan will contain a high amount of protein, low fiber, fat, sugar, and calories. 
• Full liquid diet: This diet contains only fluids and liquid food or foods that can change into liquid form when left at room temperature. This food diet is essential during a specific type of surgery or procedure. 
• Anti-diarrheal diet: As an anti-diarrheal diet, the nutritionist may suggest you eat BRAT, i.e., Bananas, white Rice, Applesauce, and Toast. However, as you recover, the physician will replace it with high fiber food like whole grain. 
• High fiber diet: The dieticians to help you with the stool problem may recommend a high fiber food diet. This diet plan will contain more fiber-rich food like vegetables, whole grains, and fruits. These are highly nutritious and prevent constipation. 
• Bland diet: If you face many gastrointestinal issues, the doctor may recommend you to follow a bland diet. It will help you feel better from curing nausea, heartburn, diarrhea, and vomiting. It is also seen effective in changing lifestyle, reducing stress, and treating ulcers. 
• Low fiber diet: To cure the problems like IBS, ulcerative colitis, and other such diseases, the nutritionist may find it fit to provide you with a low fiber diet plan. It mainly includes white bread, white flour, white rice, potatoes without skin, eggs, dairy products, etc. 
• Onco diet: It is a balanced diet plan specially designed for cancer patients. It includes an adequate amount of water, fruits, vegetables, and whole grain. 
• Hepatic diet: The dietician provides this type of diet plan mainly to individuals suffering from hepatic conditions like liver injury, cirrhosis, and encephalopathy. This diet plan will particularly include herbal supplements, vitamins, and minerals for curing the disease. 
• Renal Diet: People suffering from compromised kidney function gets tremendous benefit from following a renal diet. The diet helps them to cut down a lot of waste and promote kidney function. The plan has high-quality of proteins and low in sodium, phosphorus, and protein. 
• Pre-operative: Pre-operative diet mainly includes a large amount of protein shakes and low-calorie food that are easily digestible. However, it will contain a mostly liquid or only-liquid diet. If the dietician finds it fit, he may also include some solid in the plan.
• Postoperative diet: Postoperative diet mainly contains four types of diet stages. How quickly you will pass from one stage to another will depend on the dietician. He will analyze your health condition and suggest you liquid diet, pureed diet, soft diet, and stabilization. 

Apart from this, the dietician also provides the patient a discharge diet to ensure the recovery is faster and better. 

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