DIET HELP!

My Doctors not really helping. Can anyone help with some form of diet for UC? As soon as I see food I'm heading to the bathroom. Is this a normal thing with this. Does anyone have 3 or 4 meals they can share so I'm eating the right useful things. I'm on Remicade but it take 3 weeks to kick in. Any foods or advice would help. Actually this is Paticus's husband writing and we are really going nuts for help.

Three great books with dietary guidelines for UC are below, listed in order from strictest to most permissive:

Breaking the Vicious Cycle (Specific Carbohydrate Diet)
Listen to Your Gut (also contains a ton of non-dietary info)
The New Eating Right for a Bad Gut

Gluten, dairy, fructose, caffeine and alcohol can all cause problems for some folks. And as ima says above, if you're in a bad flare, it will seem like everything bothers you. It may take a while before you notice improvement.

Personally, my "safe" foods are tender white meat of chicken or turkey, roasted or baked, scrambled eggs, soft-cooked veggies like green beans, carrots, winter squashes, English peas, baked apples and pears, very ripe bananas, flavored apple sauces, and nut butters.

my diet is really the same as imagardener2's. Gluten was a huge problem for me as well, but the thing that caused my bleeding was sugars. I beleive i had candida, I used to eat a lot of sugar in my past really a lot. so i could have esaily over populated candida. not to mention i've always had food intolerances. I posted a diet a little wile ago which was a Gerald Green diet. Its just to elemniate candida. Its really like the SCD diet but excluding things like fruit and honey. My bleeding stopped with out medication. It also helped stop my UC spreding. I still can feel a bit of UC in my rectum but nothing else no pain, no urgecey, i also used to get panic attacks and excellerated heart rates but now i dont get that, so it did make a huge difference. I also drink goats yoghurt but i suggest only ever drink the SCD kind. Its fermented longer than supermarket yoghurts so it doesnt have as much lactose. Well as far as i know. as far as bleeding is conserend i would suggest wormwood as well. Candida hates that. there is another product out there called candida gone and appearently that makes a difference for some. for me im really symptom free and have not had any bleeding for months. Ive never felt better. I have tried a raw diet as well and loved it but unfortually i could not get rid of my bleeding i tried it for 6 months but the bleeding just kept happening every day (hopefully i will be able to do this again) .. I switched to this and boom bleeding gone in 3 days. Gerald Green says that once you have gotten rid of all your symptoms you have cracked you illness and you will be in remmison for a long time. As long as you stay on the diets.

Eating stimulates your bowels. I'm sure quincy will give you the medical term for it! I can never remember.
This is true for anyone, our systems are just more sensitive.

Know that when you flaring you should be near a bathroom before you take a single bite (or even smell food!).
Don't try to eat when you don't have a bathroom to use.

When I was flaring I could take a few bites, go to the bathroom, then back to finish my meal. If you are in a restaurant let you dining mates know to tell them not to take away your food yet, just because you left the table! I've lost really good meals that way...

A Gluten-Free diet has given me my life back.

Can't make it to the specialist on Monday because it is a 3 hour trip and can't hold it. My doctor ordered diphen/atropine for me so I can make the trip. Is this strong stuff. Hope it will keep me good for the day. Paticus