Health and Prevention

Digestive Nutrition Services

Our dietitians work with you and your doctor to develop a customized nutrition plan for your specific digestive condition.

• In our outpatient clinic, we teach you how and what to eat at home.
• If you are staying in the hospital, our nutrition team:
• Evaluates sources of malnutrition
• Recommends tube or injection feedings for malnutrition
• Provides specialized care
• If you are at home on tube or other assisted feedings, we offer a nutrition team through Continuum Home Health. A gastroenterologist, pharmacist, registered dietitian and registered nurses will monitor and help you with your nutritional needs.
  

Diet and Nutrition Materials and Guidelines

These tips and charts help you know what to eat to manage your specific condition. Links to associations and organizations can also provide further support and information.

Nutrition for patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

• Medication delivery for feeding tubes (PDF)
  
• Beverage-thickening agents (PDF)
  
• What is a PEG? (PDF)
  
• What do you do if your feeding tube clogs? (PDF)
  
• Thickened liquids: Honey-thick (PDF)
  
• Thickened liquids: Nectar-thick (PDF)
  
• Thickened liquids: Pudding-thick (PDF)

General Digestive Conditions

• National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
  
• American Dietetic Association
  
• Associations providing support for patients with digestive diseases (PDF)
• Links to educational articles and other resources
  
• National Institutes of Health Digestive Information

IV Nutrition

• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Oley Foundation

Obesity

• National Institutes of Health weight loss and control information

  
• WLS Lifestyles Magazine
  
• The American Obesity Association

Weight-Loss Surgery

• General information

  
• Weight-loss surgery discussion groups and information


Liver

• UVA Transplant Program
  
• United Network for Organ Sharing

Crohn's and Colitis Diet Tips and Recipes

• Crohn's (PDF)
• Ulcerative colitis (UC) (PDF)

• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• What to eat for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) (PDF)

Stomach Paralysis – Gastroparesis Diet Tips and Recipes

• Short version (PDF)
• Long version (PDF)
• Diabetes and gastroparesis (PDF)
• Kidney disease and gastroparesis (PDF)
• Motility and gastroparesis experts (PDF)

• Gastroparesis & Dysmotilities Association

Celiac Disease (Gluten Intolerance) Diet Tips and Recipes and More

Use these charts and suggestions to adjust your diet to fit your particular digestive goals:

• Easy-to-chew diet (PDF)
• Esophageal stent diet (PDF)
• Fat-free diet (PDF)
• Heartburn: Gastroesophageal reflux disease diet (PDF)
• High-calorie diet: Beverages (PDF)
• High-calorie liquid diet (PDF)
• High-energy snacks (PDF)
  
• Increase your fiber (PDF)
• Increase your calcium and vitamin D intake for bone health (PDF)
• Track your soluble fiber chart (PDF)
• Low fiber, low residue diet (PDF)
  
• Low-fructose diet (PDF)
• Low-sodium, high-calorie snacks (PDF)
• Potassium and your diet (PDF)
• Increasing your protein intake (PDF)
  
• Lower your sodium (PDF)
• Dumping syndrome diet (PDF)
• Manage iron build-up: Hemochromatosis (PDF)
• Manage lactose intolerance (PDF); Food chart (PDF)
• Post-surgery Nissen diet (PDF)
• Weight gain recipes and tips(PDF)
• Weight gain snack ideas (PDF)