Yeast intolerance

Hi all, i'm looking into the possiblity that i may have a yeast intolerance and was wondering if anyone else suffers with this and what their symptoms are? I have been tested years ago for coeliacs disease as my sister has this too and it was negative so i know it's not gluten. Is it common for people with crohns to have yeast intolerance? Thanks in advance, Kelly.

I found out a few months ago that I am allergic to yeast and sugar. This along with my CD makes things a bit more interesting. It's a bit overwelming trying to decide what I can eat and what I should stay away from. Plus the fact that something will bother me one time and the next time it won't. I notice that lately my symptoms are similar to the person's above...puffier/ harder feeling stomach. The pressue is sometimes unbearable. I am not much help but am still learning about this too. Good luck.

Gas and bloating can be a symptom of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. It arises when you have slowed passage through your SI and the reduced clearing of the SI allows bacteria to multiply there (can be due to a stricture, diet, pancreatic insufficiency and a few other causes). The bacterial overgrowth allows the bacteria to consume partly digested food and generate gas. It also causes either diarrhea or constipation (depends on the kind of bacteria that predominate) and inflammation or pain. The food sources that most commonly promote bacterial overgrowth are starches and sugars. If you google SIBO, you can find out more.

That does not mean that you don't have a wheat intolerance. That can also occur. It is actually fairly common because of the regular occurrence of gut permeability which allows allergies to food proteins to happen. The allergies that happen are usually for the most common foods in our diet and that is why some people have intolerance for things like beef and milk as well as wheat and yeast. It seems that food intolerances can and do fade away after a time without exposure to those foods (just based on the things that I have read).

I personally think that quite a few of us Crohnies are suffering from wheat intolerance and other food intolerances. I don't have the possibility to get a test, but you can always try by gradual avoiding certain things, and write a journal what you have avoided and how you are doing. Of course you need weeks to one month or more to find out if you really are having an intolerance.

SCD could be a good solution for those really suffering big time. And sugar is always increasing the inflammations!!! /Bee