Include sources of soluble fiber like bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, tapioca, and oatmeal. Foods containing large amounts of insoluble fiber may or may not be tolerated depending upon your risk of intestinal obstruction. Eat small frequent meals rather than large meals. Unless you have been told otherwise by your physician, it is okay to salt foods and to eat salty foods, since loss of gastrointestinal fluid is also loss of salt. You can eat the foods that you like unless they make you sick.
Caffeine can be a potent gastric stimulator and increase output by causing diarrhea.
This should be considered not only in coffee intake but in soft drink intake as well. Sally is 40 years old with short bowel syndrome as a result of numerous operations for Crohn's disease. She has approximately six feet of remaining small intestine ending with a jejunostomy. Her last operation was eight years ago. She has not had a major recurrence of her Crohn's disease since.