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Diet Therapy for Jaundice
A mild form of viral jaundice can be cured rapidly by diet
therapy and physical rest Recovery is, however, slow in
jaundice caused by obstruction in the bile ducts, depending
upon die cause and removal of the cause. The patient should
be put on a juice fast for a week, and he should rest until the
acute symptoms of the disease subside. After the juice fast,
he may adopt an all-fruit diet for a further three to five days,
taking three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits at five-hourly
intervals. Thereafter, a simple light carbohydrate diet with
exclusion of fats, best obtained from vegetables and fruits,
may be resumed.
Digestive disturbances must be avoided. No food with a
tendency to ferment or putrefy in the lower intestines like
pulses and legumes should be included in the diet
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