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.

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

• Basic nutrition tips (PDF)
  

• Medication delivery for feeding tubes (PDF)
  
• What is a PEG? (PDF)
  
• What do you do if your feeding tube clogs? (PDF)
  

Celiac Disease

• Diet tips, recipes, support group and more

Crohn's and Colitis Diet Tips and Recipes

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

• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America

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

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• What to eat for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) (PDF)
• Low-fructose diet (PDF)
• Low FODMAP (fermentable Oligo-, Di- and
  Monosaccharides and Polyols) diet (PDF)

IV Nutrition

• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Oley Foundation

Liver

• UVA Transplant Program
  
• United Network for Organ Sharing

Obesity

• National Institutes of Health weight loss and control information

  
• WLS Lifestyles Magazine
  
• The American Obesity Association

Stomach Paralysis – Gastroparesis Diet Tips and Recipes

• Short version (PDF)
• Long version (PDF)
• Gastroparesis diet - en Español (PDF)
  
• Diabetes and gastroparesis (PDF)
• Kidney disease and gastroparesis (PDF)
• Motility and gastroparesis experts (PDF)

• Gastroparesis and Dysmotilities Association

Weight-Loss Surgery

• General information

  
• Weight-loss surgery discussion groups and information
 

Specific Diets: Recipes, Tips and Guidelines

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

• Easy-to-chew diet (PDF)
• Fat-free diet for chyle leaks (PDF)
  
• Pureed diet (PDF)
  
• GI luminal stent diet (PDF)
• Heartburn: Gastroesophageal reflux disease diet (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-sodium, high-calorie snacks (PDF)
• Potassium and your diet (PDF)
• Increasing your protein intake (PDF)
  
• Lower your sodium (PDF)
• Post-gastrectomy and anti-dumping 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)