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Regardless of the type of bariatric surgery you have, your stomach will have been through some trauma. Each surgery involves some stitching and this, along with the trauma of surgery causes swelling. To allow this swelling to subside and the stitches to heal, it is generally recommended you follow a fluid and then a pureed food diet.

Different surgeons may have different guidelines for the diet following surgery as you progress from fluid to pureed food and a soft diet. To assist the healing process after surgery it is important that you follow the advice of your team, not what you have heard from other people or read on the internet.

Whilst there may be some variations in the diet guidelines following surgery, the principles remain the same and will typically involve four diet stages, which are as follows:

§ Fluid Diet

§ Smooth Pureed Diet

§ Soft Diet, progressing to normal textured food

This ebook provides all the information you need to recover safely from surgery.