My husband followed the low gas low fibre diet starting a couple of weeks before the RT started. He also drank at least 2 litres of water a day and swapped to decaf tea.
yes it’s bland, chicken, fish, no veg, white rice bread and potatoes rather than brown. But he chose to do it as he was told that it helps to keep things in the right place, the bowel out of the way, and minimise rectal damage.
he was given a mini enema to use daily first thing, but 3 weeks in no longer needed it as motions were a bit loose anyway.
after the treatment was complete he reintroduced his normal diet over a week/10 days.
Yes it was bland, yes we craved fruit veg and stuff but it seemed the right thing to do to get through the RT without being sent away due to gas and minimising possible future rectal issues.
if he does get problems which hopefully he won’t he knows he did his best to avoid them.
it’s not for everyone 🙂
in our case he had breakfast drank and used the enema and kept up fluid intake. We didn’t get the same time each day for treatment but he kept up the same routine regardless, and we knew the timetable in advance which did help us plan things around it. It worked for him.
It was nice to return to normality!