Ulcerative Colitis Flare Up

     I stick to a low residue diet while flaring.  Breakfast: Rice Krispies with Silk (milk bothers me while in a flare), 1/2 banana and 1T of Red Mill ground flaxseed meal (recommended by my nutritionist) with some honey to sweeten.  Stay away from caffeine.  I can tolerate decaf coffee with powdered creamer.  Lunch: either a turkey sandwich on white bread or Activia yogurt.  Dinner: either white meat of chicken or SALMON (extremely gut friendly) with spinach and half a baked sweet potato.  For snacks I eat low salt saltine crackers or applesauce.

     I believe you can google "low residue diet" and get some info from that.  Good luck!!

So have you not been on meds recently? And what meds did your GI prescribe?
I agree that a low-residue diet is your best bet at the moment. Also, start a good-quality probiotic supplement.

Here's the Mayo Clinic's Low residue diet: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-residue-diet/MY00745

Sounds like you know the drill with the meds. There's also a hydrocortisone enema you can try if you want to try and avoid a round of prednisone but I'll be honest I'm on them now and I am stalled in my progress getting out of my current flare. So, I might be looking at a round of pred here soon...

Thanks everybody. The doctor perscribed me Asacol (800 mg 3 times a day and 1 asacol at night). Hopefully this will help things go away quickly. I have looked at the low-residue diet and I actually just ate a piece of plain baked chicken. Hopefully it digests okay...I really dont want to be going through this again!!! :(

Easy-to-digest food, no sugars (including fructose/lactose), probiotics orally and up the butt, ginger teas (w/o sugar/cream), rice with turmeric powder and a bit of butter added to it, turmeric supplements, boswellia supplements.

I'm sort of in the same boat. I'm fighting off my next flare.

I've been using topical antibiotics for awhile now; so I'm not surprised. I'm bleeding a tiny bit but still no diarrhea and I'm only going once or twice a day. I seem to be holding my ground. It's been four days now, and I'm not getting any worse. Just a tiny bit of blood on the toilet paper after I go and a tiny bit of discomfort in the area that gets the ulcer. In the past, I'd be going diarrhea and bleeding a lot after the third day of seeing the first bit of blood.

Shoot. I'm flaring, albeit very little. I got nauseous in dance class today when we were doing our turns. I also got chills, which happens to me when I have to go. (I should have gone before going to dance class.) After I got home, I went, and yep there was some blood streaks on my poo and on the toilet paper. I'm going to be more strict with taking my turmeric, boswellia, and turmeric supplements. I'm just so tired of it, that even a small flare could affect my dance.

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