New Diet Made a Difference
Wed, October 18, 2017 6:39 PM
I am a pharmacist have had UC for about 20 years, tried all of the medications (on Entyvio and a few others now) and for the past 8 years have been trying to get off of prednisone for longer than a month at a time.
Most people say diet doesn't affect UC.
My new GI suggested an exclusion diet to see if I was sensitive to any of a list of foods after running a panel of blood allergy tests. The idea is to eliminate all of these for at least 3 weeks, then try them one at a time for 3 days before going to the next one, to see how you tolerate it.
The foods are gluten, sugar (both of which should be avoided as much as possible), dairy, soy, eggs , corn, shellfish and peanuts.
The theory is that some of these complex carbs and sugars change the microbiome (good bacteria) in your stomach making these foods harder to digest and irritating the colon lining. Gluten is an inflammatory causing substance (celiac disease is an extreme intolerance of gluten). Adults are not meant to continue consuming milk and dairy products (lactose intolerance is very common, even with small quantities).
Rather than go back on these foods, after 3 weeks I've stayed off of all of them for a few months - except for Friday and Saturday nights, or when we eat out, (in which case I eat anything) - and it has worked wonders.
I am now off of prednisone. We'll see how long it lasts but it looks promising.
Joined Oct 18, 2017
Fri, November 03, 2017 3:01 PM
Reply posted for mkuller.
There is more research being done on the connection between IBD and diet. Thanks to a patient-generated research question through our IBD Partners program, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation was awarded $2.5 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effectiveness of the specific carbohydrate diet and Mediterranean-style diet to induce remission in patients with Crohn’s disease. To learn more about this diet research check out: http://dinecd.web.unc.edu/
Joined Oct 12, 2017