What diet to follow for prostatitis?

Treatment of prostatitis of any form and type involves an integrated approach. And dietetics is far from being the last place. In this article, you will find out which foods have a beneficial effect on the healing process and which are better to refuse. And also on the basic rules and principles of the diet for prostatitis.

When treating acute and chronic prostatitis, doctors additionally recommend dieting. Therefore, patients should know how to properly prepare food during therapy, as well as the most popular and delicious recipes that are allowed to cook.

General principles and objectives of the plan

The main principle of the diet against prostatitis is a healthy and proper diet. Restriction of products is used for medicinal and prophylactic purposes. During the period of adherence to the diet, the composition of the blood significantly improves, the functioning of the digestive organs, as well as the genitourinary system, is normalized, which, in turn, leads to a decrease in the load on theprostate and increased drug absorption. The patient's discomfort in the pelvic region subsides, sexual function improves, and the risk of recurrence of prostatitis is minimized.

The main goals of the diet for this disease are:

• normalization of the amount of urine;
• elimination of inflammation;
• relief of pain and swelling;
• remove excess salt from the body;
• normalization of stool;
• increased immunity;
• reduce the amount of fat and carbohydrates consumed;
• accelerated recovery.

Prohibited foods

Experts have identified a list of products that should be completely abandoned during the treatment period:

• yeast dough;
• confectionery;
• spicy, salted and smoked meats;
• alcoholic beverages;
• preservation;
• fatty meat and fish;
• all types of legumes;
• cabbage;
• citrus;
• plum;
• soft drinks;
• strong tea and coffee;
• keep the sauces;
• Chocolate.

Authorized products

The list of products that make up the diet menu for prostatitis is quite long, so each patient can easily choose dishes according to their preferences:

• lean meats (rabbit, lamb, veal);
• lean poultry (chicken, turkey, quail);
• low-fat varieties of fish (preference should be given to marine fish);
• dairy products;
• chicken eggs;
• cereals;
• bread (bran or rye);
• all varieties of pasta;
• vegetables in any form;
• fruit;
• berries;
• nuts;
• freshly squeezed fruit juices;
• herbal tea.

Goose and duck meat, as well as semolina, should be consumed in limited quantities.

Sour cream can be used only for dressing various dishes, and butter can be used only as an addition to porridge or pasta, as well as on bread in a thin layer.

Power characteristics

In the acute form of the disease

The diet for acute prostatitis involves the use of chopped food at medium temperature. If the body temperature is high and there is no appetite at all, doctors advise fasting for several days, subject to abundant fluid intake.

With the above form of the disease, it is recommended to eat food that is easily absorbed by the body, and does not overload the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. The basis of the diet is boiled or steamed vegetable dishes, supplemented with various fermented fruits and dairy products. In small quantities, the use of lean meats, poultry and fish is allowed.

In the acute form of prostatitis, caffeine, spices, spicy and very salty foods are strictly prohibited. You must refuse products that contribute to the formation of gas, as well as the preservation and offal of meat.

In chronic form

Nutrition for chronic prostatitis is not so strict. In limited quantities, you can use mushrooms, spices and dry wine (no more than 1 glass per day). Spicy and salty foods should be excluded from the daily menu.

It is advisable to minimize fatty, smoked and salty foods, to limit sauces and legumes. Weak coffee and tea can be consumed in small amounts.

Sample menu for a week

Day 1

1. Breakfast: light herbal tea, porridge, carrot and parsnip salad.
2. Lunch: onion soup, porridge with wheat groats, beef balls, jelly.
3. Dinner: steamed fish with vegetables, fruit salad.
4. Evening snack: kefir.

Day 2

1. Breakfast: 1-2 hard-boiled eggs, milk soup, broth or compote.
2. Lunch: mashed potatoes with fish, vegetable salad, tea.
3. Dinner: buckwheat, cheesecake, broth.
4. Evening snack: a glass of milk.

Day 3

1. Breakfast: oatmeal, seaweed salad, light decoction of herbs.
2. Lunch: vegetable and fish stew, salad of cucumbers and herbs, several fruits.
3. Dinner: baked potatoes, light vegetable soup, herbal tea.
4. Snack before bed: a glass of kefir.

Day 4

1. Breakfast: oatmeal, cheese sandwiches, decoction of dried apricots.
2. Lunch: pasta with boiled or baked chicken meat, vegetable salad, jelly.
3. Dinner: corn porridge, herbal tea, carrot cutlets.
4. Snack before bed: a glass of freshly squeezed juice.

Day 5

1. Breakfast: pumpkin porridge, decoction of any dried fruit or juice.
2. Lunch: buckwheat with steamed chicken, tea.
3. Dinner: rice porridge, boiled potatoes with fish, vegetable salad.
4. Snack before bed: homemade yogurt.

Day 6

1. Breakfast: carrot salad, boiled rice, herbal tea.
2. Lunch: meatball soup, steamed fish, vegetable stew, juice.
3. Dinner: buckwheat, seafood salad, compote.
4. Snack before bed: kefir or baked fermented milk.

Day 7

1. Breakfast: homemade cottage cheese with added fruits, hard-boiled egg, herbal tea.
2. Lunch: potatoes with lean meat in the oven, dried fruit compote.
3. Dinner: pumpkin puree, boiled chicken fillet, some fruit.
4. Snack before bed: a glass of freshly squeezed juice.

Experts recommend including vegetables in the first meal, adding various seasonings when cooking. It is advisable to use an oven, a bain-marie or a multicooker to create dishes.

Principles of cooking for patients with prostatitis

The diet for prostatitis is not strict, the list of prohibited foods is small, so you can cook various dishes that will satisfy any taste, observing only simple cooking principles.

Meat and fish should be baked, boiled, stewed or steamed. It is advisable to give up fat or use it as little as possible. After boiling the meat, the rest of the broth can be used for various soups. In the case of boiled poultry meat, you must first remove the skin, since it contains a large amount of fat. The fish can also be occasionally charcoal but eaten without the rind.

It is recommended to eat meat shashlik in a minimum amount, while removing the fried crust. Herring should be soaked in water before serving. When preparing starters, especially soups, it is necessary to minimize the amount of potatoes, and also to avoid combining pasta with meat dishes.

When adding vegetables to soups, experts recommend to abandon frying and use them exclusively raw. This approach will significantly reduce the load on the digestive system.

The second courses are varied - cutlets, meatballs, soufflés and stews are allowed. You can cook cereals, casseroles and meatballs from cereals; they are also used in chops and meatballs. A vegetable side dish is made from raw vegetables or vegetables that have been steamed and steamed. Frying with a minimum amount of oil is allowed. It is advisable to choose pasta of hard varieties and use them in limited quantities.

Experts recommend the use of funchose because it is well absorbed by the body.

Prescriptions for patients with prostatitis

Below are recipes for dishes that nutritionists have developed specifically to set a menu for a prostatitis diet.

Baked pink salmon in a lemon marinade

Ingredients:

• pink salmon - 400 g;
• a small lemon;
• a bunch of green vegetables;
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. ;
• breadcrumbs - 1 tbsp.

Remove all the bones from the fish, can be cut into portions. Then prepare the marinade. To do this, mix butter, crackers, add the required amount of salt, grate the fish and sprinkle with herbs. Arrange the lemon slices on top.

Grease a baking sheet with oil or cover with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Bake for 15 minutes.

The dish can be garnished with lettuce leaves.

Veal with rice

Ingredients:

• 150 g of veal fillet;
• 1 cup of rice
• 1 medium carrot;
• celery and parsley root;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. ;
• Bay leaf ;
• salt.

Place a piece of veal in the water and bring to a boil, then drain the water and replace it with a new one, wait for it to boil again. Put the vegetables and bay leaf in a saucepan, cook the meat until tender.

Pour the oil into a preheated pan and add the pre-washed rice. Fry until the beans are golden brown. Then pour in 350 ml of water, reduce the heat to maximum, close the lid and simmer until tender.

Meat with rice can be garnished with herbs before serving.

Baked potato

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 4 pcs. ;
• paprika - 1 teaspoon;
• ground pepper to taste;
• cumin - 1/4 tsp.
• oregano - 1 tbsp. I . ;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp.
• salt to taste.

Peel the potatoes and cut them into even-sized slices. Place in a bowl and mix with vegetable oil. Mix all the spices well. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, lay out the potatoes and sprinkle evenly with seasoning. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and bake for 20-30 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes.

Serve as a separate dish or with a vegetable salad.

Curd pudding

Ingredients:

• low-fat cottage cheese - 500 g;
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs. ;
• flour - 2 tbsp. I . ;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. L.

Grind cottage cheese, add yolks, sugar and flour, mix well until smooth. Break down the proteins into a stable foam and slowly introduce them into the rest of the mass. If you want, you can add various fruits, berries or dried fruits. Transfer the future pudding to a special baking dish, having previously greased it with oil. Cook in a bain-marie or in a multicooker in "Cooking" mode.

Buckwheat with mushrooms

Ingredients:

• buckwheat - 0, 5 cups;
• 1 tomato;
• 4 small mushrooms;
• half an onion;
• greenery;
• olive oil;
• salt to taste.

Buckwheat should be cooked until tender and seasoned with salt to taste. Heat a pan, add oil and brown the chopped onion. Cut the mushrooms into 4 pieces and add them to the pan, fry them until tender, add the diced tomatoes, add herbs and spices to taste. Keep on low heat for 5-7 minutes, then add the buckwheat and mix. Turn off the gas and let stand for 10 minutes.

Baked apples with berries

Ingredients:

• 2 medium apples;
• 1 cup of black currant berries (you can use any);
• sugar to taste.

Cut the apples in half and remove the seeds, mix the berries with the sugar. Place a small amount of berries in each half of the apple and arrange on a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C, cook for 15 minutes. The cooled dessert can be sprinkled with sugar or powder.

Fish soufflé

Ingredients:

• hake fillet - 300 g;
• medium potatoes - 4 pcs. ;
• butter - 50 g;
• cream 15% - 100 ml;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs. ;
• 1 onion;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. I . ;
• salt to taste.

Boil the previously peeled potatoes until they are tender, remove them from the water and mash them with the butter and cream. In the water in which the potatoes were boiled, place the pieces of fish and cook until tender. Chop the onion and sauté in olive oil until golden brown. Beat the whites with a mixer until a firm foam is obtained. Combine the boiled fish, potatoes, onions, yolks and salt until smooth using a mixer, gradually add the whites. Place the mixture in a baking dish. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Bake the soufflé for 30 minutes.

Carrot cutlets

Ingredients:

• carrots - 500 g;
• flour 100 g;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs. ;
• olive oil - 50 ml;
• salt to taste.

Boil the carrots until tender, peel them and chop them in a blender. Add flour, eggs, salt, mix until smooth. Make small, uniform cutlets and fry them until tender. Instead of frying, you can steam it or use the oven.

Kissel

Ingredients:

• 2 liters of water;
• starch - 3 tbsp. I . ;
• sugar - 1 glass;
• cherries or berries - 500 g;
• vanilla and cinnamon to taste.

Boil water, add seasonings and keep on fire for 4-5 minutes. Add cherries and sugar. Dissolve the cornstarch in 1 glass of water and gradually add it to the saucepan with the rest of the ingredients. Keep the heat on for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Once thickened, remove from heat and let cool.

Get out of the diet

After completing the treatment of prostatitis, the diet should be gradually stopped. Nutrition should be properly balanced and refrain from a sharp transition to prohibited foods. Experts recommend sticking to the diet in the future and gradually introducing new foods, while carefully monitoring the body's response. When developing a diet, it is necessary to minimize the consumption of a large number of fatty foods or semi-finished products.

To prevent the recurrence of the disease, it is necessary to give up the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and unhealthy and heavy foods, fast food and give preference to good nutrition.

Advantages and disadvantages of the diet

With strict observance of dietary nutrition, a positive effect is observed after 3 days. ATadvantagesdiets include:

• a significant reduction in pain;
• prevention of worsening of the disease;
• lack of hunger;
• normalization of weight.

ATdisadvantagesshould be attributed to a strong dependence on the diet in people who prefer fried, spicy and smoked foods, as well as the presence of contraindications to such a diet in some patients.

Comments

• 39-year-old man: "A year ago, the doctors diagnosed prostatitis. In addition to drug therapy, dietetic foods were prescribed. It was difficult to get used to the new diet, as I never limited myself to eating. However, after the first few days, I noticed an improvement in the condition, and the pain started to go away. I try not to eat junk food and heavy food when I stop the diet, I feel good, the work of the digestive organs and the condition of the body as in general have improved, there ishad no relapse of the disease. "
• 54-year-old man: "I never limited myself to eating. I noticed that after eating fatty and spicy foods, an exacerbation of prostatitis began. I decided to listen to the advice of experts andto use a diet to prevent exacerbations. At first it was unusual, but the menu is quite varied, which allows you not to be hungry and to find dishes that suit me. After switching to such a diet, myhealth has improved markedly, and exacerbations are occurring less and less often. "
• 42-year-old woman: "My husband was diagnosed with prostatitis, he was prescribed medication and diet. At first, the husband refused to limit himself to food, constantly collapsed and ate food. fried and spicy. Then he decided to get rid of the disease, recovered and began to diet. , prescribed by a doctor. The state of health practically improved in a few days, the problems with the organsdigestive systems have disappeared, the excess weight has decreased. The disease has receded and has not bothered for a long time. "

Diet for prostatitis helps not only to significantly speed up the treatment process, but also to heal the body as a whole, as it allows the rejection of harmful food. The food is quite varied, which makes it possible to choose the right dishes and not to go hungry.