Fruits & Vegetables
Ensure that you maintain a colorful diet during and after treatment. You should fill your daily diet with foods with high nutritional values. Let your diet consist of foods that are rich in multivitamins and other nutrients like potassium, sodium, magnesium, and calcium. Vitamins are filled with antioxidants and help strengthen the immune system to fight against diseases.
A well-balanced and healthy diet will help speed recovery and prevent complications.
Fluids
It is best to take plenty of fluids when suffering from C. Diff Colitis-related diarrhea. Drink lots of fluids containing water, salt, and sugar, including fruit juices, soft drinks, and broths. This helps to prevent extreme dehydration that occurs to persons suffering from diarrhea.
Health experts have come up with a carefully selected list of foods that are safe to eat if you have diarrhea. Starchy foods, such as potatoes, noodles, rice, wheat, and oatmeal are good for you and a less likely to stimulate frequent bowel movements. The BRAT diet consists of bananas, rice, apple, and toast which can help add bulk to stools and prevent watery feces. Saltine crackers, soups, and boiled vegetables are also great choices for you.
After symptoms have subsided, you can slowly introduce regular foods.