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Some medications can help alleviate nausea or hard stools. Other drugs can help you control your blood sugar. You may need to change the type, amount and timing of your insulin. These changes can help you control your blood sugar better. By avoiding the source of the problem and laid down the nutrients and drugs directly into the small intestine, you ensure that these products were digested and sent into your bloodstream quickly. If other approaches to treat gastroparesis does not work, you may need surgery to insert a tube. The tube, called a jejunostomy tube, is inserted through the skin on your stomach into the small intestine. The tube allows you to put nutrients directly into the small intestine, bypassing the stomach at all.
You will receive a special liquid diet to use with tubes. There is no cure for diabetic gastroparesis, but usually the disease can be treated with medication and changes in your diet. Good blood sugar control is also helpful in treating gastroparesis. Some medications can help improve movement in your digestive tract. These medicines can help your stomach empty more quickly, and aid the digestion of food. You may need to make changes in your daily diet and the time you eat. Jejunostomy tubes may be temporary and used only if necessary when severe gastroparesis. To help diagnose gastroparesis with barium beefsteak meal tests you will eat food containing barium, allowing the doctor to see your stomach digest food. The amount of time it takes to eat a barium to digest and leave the stomach doctor give you an idea of how well the stomach is working.
Avoid these foods because the hard part is digested in the stomach would still be too long and probably forms the bezoars. Treatments including insulin, oral medications, change what and when you eat, and, in severe cases, feeding tubes and intravenous feeding. Change your eating habits can help control gastroparesis. Your doctor or dietitian will give specific instructions, but you may be asked to eat small meals six days, rather than three large ones. If less food enters the stomach each time you eat, it does not become too full. Or the doctor or dietitian may suggest that you try some liquid meals a day until your blood glucose levels stable and gastroparesis has improved. Natural fat slows down digestion of something you don't need if you have gastroparesis and fibers are difficult to digest. Some foods high in fiber such as oranges and broccoli contain material that cannot be digested.