Fasting Tips for Non Communicable Disease Patient

For moslem, fasting during one month in Ramadhan is an obligation. How to keep fasting for non communicable patient such as ulcer, hypertension, stroke, cardiac, diabetes mellitus patient, and so forth?


Tips to make fasting going smoothly. Every fasting break and sahur, the food served at least should be had one of the food come from 4 food groups such as main food (rice, corn, tuber, bread), side dishes (nuts, tempe, tofu, fish, chicken, milk, and other result process), vegetable (all types of vegetables), and fruit (all types of fruit). Especially for food, eat 1 more fruit after tarawih pray before go to bed.

Then, avoid salty food whether in sahur time or fasting break. Salty food such as salty eggs, salty fish, salty soy sauce, potato chips, cheese, tin meat, tomatoes sauce, chili sauce, including food flavoring such as MSG.

Then lessen eat high fat food such as oxtail soup, satay, pizza, burger, fried food, chicken skin, jerohan, curry, and so forth. In addition, when fasting break comes, it suggested to consume warm drink and sweet food which come from fruits such as date palm, banana, etc. And of course we have to consume lots of the mineral water and avoid from alcoholic beverages.

To keep our healthy and fit body, do exercise at least 30 minutes a day or at least 3-4 days in a week. Heavy exercise is not necessary, light exercise such as walking, scurry, jog, aerobic and riding bike is sufficient to do before fasting break or after the dawn.

Ramadan is also the right momentum for smokers to initiate quitting smoking, so in the next month they have started to reduce the addiction to nicotine and live healthier while to deal with stress can be done by deepening the emphasis on religion as well as other acts of worship such as dhikr and read the holy book the Quran.

Arrange a schedule of consumption of medicines for patients with diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, for example, when breaking the fast, at bedtime or when the meal. Drinking these medications regularly in accordance with the advice of doctors / health workers.