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Posted 2/9/2009 9:58 PM (GMT 0)
 

Below is a list of flare foods or foods that irritate my colon and give me D for several days. Please add your foods to the list. I'd like to see if there are many common foods among us.

 

1) Pizza

2) Tomato Sauce

3) Parmigiano Cheese

4) Chicken Burritos (from Chipolte)

4) very greesy foods

5) Still trying to figure it out the rest.

Posted 2/9/2009 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
I have always maintained that there are no foods that made my colon symptoms worse, but I finally get to join the group!

My food irritant is: Oatmeal
Posted 2/9/2009 10:14 PM (GMT 0)
Any kind of pork(especially roast) is really bad for me (high fat content)
Posted 2/9/2009 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
I think Pastry is bad for me. Although I'm not sure, I had lots of things on my lunch break at work with Pastry.. felt strange since!
Posted 2/9/2009 10:22 PM (GMT 0)
raw veggies get me real bad.
Posted 2/9/2009 10:27 PM (GMT 0)
any food that gives me gas & burps!
1)cabbage, even cucumber :-(
2)food with low fiber content - donut, pizza, cake... not the cakes/ breads made of high fiber dough!
3)too much fried stuff esp. deep fried
4) peanuts, mustard seeds
5)spicy food, includes sauce
6)chickpeas if i eat too much of it!
7)cheese...any cheese, i stay away from all kinds
Posted 2/9/2009 10:36 PM (GMT 0)
sauerkraut.... although I love it... my colon hates it
Lettuce.... love salads... they hate me.
To much wheat/gluten.
Raw onions.... sauteed or cooked is fine
Pork chops, pork roast... although ham, bacon, sausage seem to be fine... not sure of the distinction
Posted 2/9/2009 10:58 PM (GMT 0)

I'm still trying to work it out but so far...

Pizza
Chinese food (chow mein + rice, prawn crackers)
Too much cheese

Orange juice
Any alcohol
Hot chocolate (with milk and cream!)

Posted 2/9/2009 11:22 PM (GMT 0)
tomatoes and any tomato based foods, including pizza

chili

nuts

raw broccoli and cauliflower

any thing high in fiber when I'm having a flare

any kind of pastries a possibility

possibly coffee, not sure about this one though, but I try to have at least a half a cup every morning anyway. 

orange juice

popcorn

I am going to try to eliminate wheat from my diet for a week or two to see what I need to eliminate permanently. I thought I would try eating a couple of slices of pizza last night, and in the bathroom I was, going three times within about a hour or two. So anything heavy is out right now until my colon and rectal area gets back to normal.

Posted 2/9/2009 11:45 PM (GMT 0)
iceberg lettuce in particular, and big salads of any kind
hard alcohol
pizza hut pizza's sauce
too many nuts
and, apparently, wheat and other glutens
Posted 2/10/2009 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
Right now, EVERYTHING! But the worst for me would be:

Oatmeal (even those oatmeal cereal bars.. basically anything with oats/granola)
Ice cream
Orange juice
Anything with seeds, and especially fruit smoothies that have seeds in them
Tomato sauce, but I love it too much to cut it out of my diet.. Italian food is my favorite.
Mexican food
Nuts
Pizza
Chili
Potato chips, the only kind I can eat are tortilla chips, like Tostinos
Chocolate
Salad, but I think maybe it could be ranch dressing that does it, I don't know


Basically all the good fun stuff kills me.
Posted 2/10/2009 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
Oh. Just ate a fried chicken sandwich from the work cafeteria. Add that to the irritant list *runs to the bathroom*

Worst thing is, it's sitting heavy in my stomach and I have that acidic feeling in my mouth, like I would feel so much better if I threw up and got it out of there. Ugh
Posted 2/10/2009 1:04 AM (GMT 0)

1) Popcorn
2) The skin of tomatoes and bell peppers
3) Fruit juices other than cranberry or low acid orange juice
4) Cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus
5) Deep fried food
6) Corn chips (I love Doritos, that is such a bummer)
7) Spicy food (Don't care for it particularly, but still ...)
8) Raw carrots
9) Everything with MSG, carageen and other "flavor enhancers" and artificial flavorings

Trying hard to think of anything else, but I think this covers it.

Posted 2/12/2009 9:29 PM (GMT 0)
1. frozen pizza
2. fruit juices
3. alcohol :(
And probably much more
Posted 2/12/2009 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
I start reading alot of the messages and Im like oh yeah that up sets me to. Oh and that. When I wrote mine that was all I could think of. Sometimes it seems that everything thats good in this world to eat is bad lol
Posted 2/12/2009 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
Sometimes candy bars. And chips. I know, I shouldn't be eating that crap anyway.
Posted 2/12/2009 11:17 PM (GMT 0)

Thankfully I can still eat glazed donuts and drink instant hot chocolate.  However, many of my favorite foods have become no-nos.  They include:

Anything with a tomato base (pizaa, spaghetti, baked ziti (sp?), lasagna, tiki masala chicken, etc)

Cheese (unless it is cooked/baked in)

Cream Cheese (unless it is baked in, I'm still good to go on Cheesecake Factory cheesecake)

Sour Cream

Milk (unless baked/cooked in)

Ice Cream  cry (I miss you brownie sundaes!) cry

Salad (Although, I have a favorite restaurant with a fabulous salad bar so I eat it when I go there)

Cranberry Juice (my favorite, it hates me)

I'm sure this list should be longer, but this is all I can think of...

Posted 2/13/2009 3:35 AM (GMT 0)
1. Anything with a lot of sugar (ice cream, pastries, donuts, cookies, jams/jellies)
2. Greasy foods (fast food burgers, potato chips, etc)
3. Eating too much dairy, including cheese and yogurt
4. Did I mention things that have a lot of sugar?

Any of the above I can handle in moderation, but moderation is a very small amount. Once I go over my limit, look out!
Posted 2/13/2009 4:55 AM (GMT 0)

madabs said...
I have always maintained that there are no foods that made my colon symptoms worse, but I finally get to join the group!

My food irritant is: Oatmeal

Some companies add high fructose corn syrup to their oatmeal. Perhaps it's something in the oatmeal that worsens your colon symptoms.
Posted 2/13/2009 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
I used Irish Oats and the Quaker Old Fashioned. Both kinds have to be cooked and nothing added to them. I think I probably would have found I had trouble with oatmeal even without the colitis. I just never ate them before the past few years (unless they were in a cookie).
Posted 2/13/2009 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
     High fiber foods
Posted 2/13/2009 3:50 PM (GMT 0)
NO DAIRY/ EGGS for me... (in any form; whey protien is almost everything)- so if Pizza bothers you, you may want to look into soy cheese...

INSOLUBLE fiber is hard to digest/ soluble fiber is okay (ie- I eat an apple without the skin) It helps A TON, because the soluble fiber keeps things moving smoothly:)
No raw veggies- I cook them a bit before eating them.-turning insoluble fiber into soluble fiber. no skin of anything that doesn't break apart easily- ie:no tomato skin, no eggplant skin... just peel it off after cooking

Wheat and corn (chips or whole) are hard to digest, sticking to brown rice /crackers/ rice flour/ rice noodles (as in Thai food) are much easier on my system.

***If I am going to eat anything that I know I shouldn't (like corn chips or wheat bread) I try to have a 'very digestable' fruit or veggie first. That way, it kindof warms up your intestines/colon and gets it working on something very easy to digest first... then it does a better job of moving the other food through smoothly.
Posted 2/13/2009 3:53 PM (GMT 0)
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Posted 2/13/2009 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
Well the only thing that really seems to bother me...
chocolate... if I eat more than a bite
soft ice cream IF i overdo.....too much
anything with heavy creamy sauces....
too many (almonds, pistachios, peanuts ....though I can eat unlimited walnuts).

Some things bother me but in the upper digestive realm, not with the UC.....
raw onions
red beans

And because I take Azulfadine, I tended to get more acid refux.
But I use Zantac 150 when I know I am going to have something acidic.
I do better on tomato sauce than I used to ....not sure why.


For a long time, my upper GI problems (resulting from UC) were much worse.
One thing that I think helps me a lot......retirement and the ability to eat more small meals rather than 3 larger meals.
Posted 2/13/2009 5:54 PM (GMT 0)

Most Fruit and citrus being the worst
Popcorn
Sweetcorn
Cauliflower
Boccoli
Pizza
Nuts
Black eyed beans
Alcohol
Onions
Garlic

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