Prostate cancer treatment diet

Daily Schedule

On waking up:

• Drink 500ml water and 500ml Fibogel mixture.
• Eat two slices of toast or a wholemeal flatbread.
• Drink a cup of coffee.
• Pack a banana or other similar fruit for a mid-morning snack, plus a sandwich and a packet of crisps for lunch unless you're planning to eat in the hospital cafeteria.

On arrival at the hospital

• Take a self-administered enema if required to do so.
• Drink 500ml water from the dispenser.

At around 10 am

• Eat your banana or other piece of fruit.

For lunch

• Eat your sandwich and the packet of crisps or buy them from the hospital cafeteria.
• Drink 500ml water from the dispenser.

For dinner

• You can eat any combination of:
  • cheese
  • coleslaw
  • meat: chicken, beef, ham, lamb, mutton, steak
  • peppers: any colour
  • potato: jacket, boiled, roasted, mashed, sweet
  • rice, linguini, or pasta
  • root vegetables: carrots, parsnips
  • seafood: fish, prawns, trout, tuna, salmon
  • toasties
  • tomatoes
• DO NOT EAT OR DRINK ANY OF THESE because they generate gas when digested)
  • beans (any colour)
  • beer, cider or sparkling wine
  • carbonated (fizzy) drinks
  • fresh or dried chillis
  • eggs
  • green vegetables
  • lentils
  • spicy food

For bedtime

• Take two 7.5mg Senna tablers, washed down with a Fybogel sachet dispersed in a glass of water.

For Friday night

• Eggs and curry are both on the menu.

For Saturday and Sunday

• Treat these days the same as Monday through Thursday in order to flush Friday night's digestive residues out of your lower bowel.