Question

A patient who has a colostomy is complaining about having excess gas. You ask the patient to tell you what he has ate in the past 48 hours. Which food would you suspect is causing the patient excessive gas?

Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice 7th Edition Author: Susan G. Dudek

Answer 1

The food would I suspect is causing the patient excessive gas include;

Caraway seeds, tomato soup, and eggs. (Foods having, FODMAPs short-chain carbohydrates that escape digestion and are then fermented by gut bacteria in the colon. Gas is a byproduct of this process).Common FODMAP foods are;

·         Garlic

·         Artichoke.

·         Asparagus.

·         Baked beans.

·         Bananas, ripe.

·         Beetroot, fresh.

·         Black beans.