Eating liquid

Originally Posted by Mucknuggle

Wow. How did the people at the hospital let you eat that? I'd rather be stuck on an IV than be forced to live off of Gatorade and chicken broth.

Its called a clear liquid diet, and they give it to you when you have any kind of intestinal trauma/infection or need to prep for a scoping. At my local hospital, that diet consists of a selection of beef or chicken broth, jell-o, ginger ale, coffee, and tea. You get roughly 600 calories per day from this diet.

One step up from that is the full liquid diet which upgrades the broth to a creamed or blended soup, adds filtered juices, and you get ice cream (plain).

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Originally Posted by nazpyro

My mom's having surgery this Tuesday, so she'll be on this clear liquid diet on Monday. She already did all the grocery shopping to prepare for this day: the broths, jell-o, etc. Except coffee/tea: no sugar allowed.

I take my coffee black and my tea without any sugar.

I've had to be on the clear liquid/full liquid diet four times from my Ulcerative Colitis. I find that Trader Joe's has some very nice broths and cream/pureed soups (fire roasted pepper and tomato soup, yum).

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