Measuring cup – 200ml

  • 6.00 a.m:    Breathing exercise – 10mts, walking – 20 mts
  • 6.30 a.m:    Milk – 250 ml with half sugar, Protein powder – 2 tsp (or) Boiled country egg – 1 (Weekly thrice)
  • 8.30 a.m:    Idli – 4 with sambar (or) Little millets dosai without oil – 3-4 with mint chuttney (or) Little millets pongal – 2½ cup with sambar (or) Idiyappam -3 with vege kuzhambu ( No condiments & coconut)
  • 10.30 a.m: Fruit salad – 1 cup with almond or walnut (or) Greens or bone soup – 200ml
  • 12.30 p.m:  Cooked boil rice – 2½ – 3 cup, Vegetable sambar (or) Dhal (or) Sprouted gram kuzhambu, Rasam / skimmed milk curd – 100 ml, Vege koottu – 1 cup (or) Meat – 4 -6 pieces, Keerai Porrial – 1 cup  (weekly thrice) (or) Vege porrial with onion
  • 3.30 p.m:   Skimmed milk or milk – 250 ml with  protein powder – 2 tsp
  • 5.30 p.m:    Sundal – ½ cup (or) Wheat bread vege sandwich – 2 sets (or) Fruit salad – ½ cup
  • 7.30 p.m:  Cooked rice – 2½ cup, Sambar / rasam/, Vege. Porrial – 1 cup
  • 9.00 p.m: Banana – 1
  • 9.30 a.m: Milk – 250 ml with half sugar with turmeric powder – 2 pinches

Food list:

Foods to be included:

GramWhole , Sprouted gram, All kind of dhal, All green vegetables, Certain veges: – Bitter gourd, Bottle gourd, Beet root, Drumstick, Thandu eerai, Vendaya,Keerai, Drumstick Keerai, Ponangani,eerai, Rooted vegetables, Fruits -Sweet lime, Grapes, Pears, Oranges, Pine,pple, Peaches, Banana, Custard apple, Avin milk, Skimmed milk, Skimmed milk curd, protein health powder, Egg, Lean meat, Bone soup.

Foods to be Avoided:

Too much of white sugar, White bread, Refined cereals, Maida, Sauce, Fried food, Strong coffee & tea, Caffeinated  beverages, Fatty meat, Condiments – masala things, Pickle, Fried foods, Junk food.

Protein health powder:

  • Ragi – 200 gm
  • Sp.green gram-100 gm
  • Roasted bengal gram – 100 gm
  • Wheat – 100 gm
  • Soya beans – 25 gm
  • Ground nut – 25 gm
  • Cardomam – 4-5

Method:

  • Roast all the ingredients and grind it.
  • Mix 2tsp of powder in one glass of cold water and allow to boil for five mts with 2 tsp jaggery or brown sugar or karupatti.
  • Add  100 – 150ml of milk and mix well and drink.

Points to remember:

  •  Supplement the diet with mild aerobic exercise.
  • Half salt is enough in the diet.
  • Prunes and dried fruits may also be taken.
  • Nuts like badam, walnut; etc can be taken as evening snack.
  • Take plenty of water.
  • Most patients have a poor appetite. Meals should be made simple, easily digestible, well prepared and tempting to encourage the patient to eat.
  • Slow massage, deep breathing and light occupation to ensure mental diversion are beneficial steps.
  • During the acute stage of illness when fever is high, high protein, high energy, full fluid diet is given. As improvement occurs, this diet is progressed to a soft and then a regular diet.
  • Force-feeding  the patient to gain extra weight  is known to be more harmful than advantageous. Too much food specially fat, frequently causes gastric upsets and diarrhea.
  • If the patient has a poor appetite, he should be administered a 6 meal pattern.
  • Diet for a tuberculosis patient is essentially a normal diet with emphasis on proper selection of food.
  • All meals should have cereal – pulse combination with some amount of animal protein.
  • Complete rest mentally and physically is very important. Stress prevents healing.
  • Fresh air is always important in curing disease. Spend most of the time in open air and should sleep in a well ventilated room.
  • Body needs 7-8 hrs sleep. sleep deprivation  is the cause of tiredness .
  • Avoid strain and stressful work.
  • Monitor the weight gain,every month.