Observance of the following special dietary recommendations:
Avoid
Raw or inadequately heated, contaminated, and spoiled foods, such as raw milk, eggs and egg dishes, fish and seafood, and meat, especially poultry. Furthermore, these include:
Raw milk and products made from raw milk (e.g. raw milk cheese).
Raw or not sufficiently heated meat and minced meat.
Spreadable raw sausages (e.g. onion mettwurst, Teewurst “Braunschweiger Mettwurst”).
Contaminated drinking water
Food and food, such as potato and pasta salad, left for a long time in a warm environment or otherwise improperly stored.
Very fatty or cold foods
High amounts of unripe fruit
Allergy-causing foods, such as milk, egg, chocolate, yeast, nuts, cheese, fish, fruits, vegetables, in the presence of a food allergy.
In any case, adequate fluid and electrolyte replacement must be made to compensate for the high water loss in enteritis. In the elderly and infants or young children, an electrolyte powder may need to be used to prevent further complications.
Oral rehydration for signs of dehydration (fluid deficiency; > 3% weight loss): administration of oral rehydration solutions (ORL), which should be hypotonic, between meals (“tea breaks”) for mild to moderate dehydration. Infants and children who can be well rehydrated orally or even enterally should not receive intravenous therapy. Caution.
Prepare ORL with water and not together with other beverages [the procedure is independent of the type of dehydration (iso-, hypo- or hypertonic dehydration)].
For infants and children are not suitable cola drinks or homemade juice-sugar-salt-water mixed drinks.
Selection of appropriate food based on the nutritional analysis
See also under “Therapy with micronutrients (vital substances)” – Taking a suitable dietary supplement.
