Any ideas for a diet for a colitis sufferer?
Mark asked:
Have been diagnosed for three years, and always seem to relaspe just as things seem to be getting better. Currently flared-up. Diet mainly consists of white meat, fish, potatoes, carrot and swede. Cannot tolerate green veg or salad veg, cheese, tomatoes, onion. I don’t eat rice, noodles, chilli or curry, and the only hot foodstuff I have is a very small amount of brown pepper on chicken. How do people whose diet is mainly a spicey one, ie Asian/Indian, cope with Colitis?
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Have been diagnosed for three years, and always seem to relaspe just as things seem to be getting better. Currently flared-up. Diet mainly consists of white meat, fish, potatoes, carrot and swede. Cannot tolerate green veg or salad veg, cheese, tomatoes, onion. I don’t eat rice, noodles, chilli or curry, and the only hot foodstuff I have is a very small amount of brown pepper on chicken. How do people whose diet is mainly a spicey one, ie Asian/Indian, cope with Colitis?
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December 1st, 2007 at 9:42 am
ask yr gp or consultant to get u an appt with a hospital nutritionist, they should be able to help u. my daughter has crohns and they were able to give her advice, some of which was new to her, although diet doesnt seem to help her.
December 1st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Both my parents have Crohns and both kept to a simple diet. My mother’s Crohns was first diagnosed as colitis and she was eating hardly anything. She started introducing one additional item every few days and if she had no reaction she kept eating it. I think you have to go more for textures than tasty foods and anything that is a pre-prepared meal from the supermarket has to be tried with caution. Are you wheat intolerant? If yes, you might find the diet used by coeliacs (celiacs) helpful. Basically you have to avoid glutens - there are some good websites if you do a search. The stoma nurses at the hospital just told my Mum to try different foods as everyone has a different tolerance. You might like to see if your GP would send you to the dietician for advice or if you can afford to find someone who has qualified at a Nutritionist
(www.ion.ac.uk/) they should be able to give you valuable guidance.