Poll on who does and doesn't uses any type of food/diet to help keep UC under control

mum-- in answer to your Qs: I eat brown rice generally, but do not use rice milk. I do fine with nonfat or lowfat lactose-free milk and natural yogurt, and also with low-salt cottage cheese, gruyere, emmentaler, & appenzeller (Swiss-made) yellow cheeses. Heavy salt or cream definitely irritates my colon, also some roughage. I think that foods causing irritation in the gut can trigger flares-- not always, but probably if we are overtired or weakened by other things already. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

Looks like more people use diet or avoid certain foods to help with uc than not

I go for the second option, but with modification that I don't believe in food CAUSING flares. As certain foods can trigger my symptoms or just upset my guts, I try to avoid those foods. It's not a special diet, just a common sense I'd say

NoReMac you should be able to eat brown rice boiled on a stove top but not done in the microwave, my naturopath said to stop using the microwave and eat brown rica and drink rice milk which is made from brown rice. I love rice milk now took me awhile to get used to it cannot drink it in tea ect. But you can make shakes out of it with vital greens, spirallina, banana smoothie ect. I also have white rice ocassionally about once a fortnight when I made chicken curry with coconut cream the only canned item I use apart from organic chick pease to make my own tahini takes about 5 to 10 minutes in the blender. It is one of the only dips I am aloud to eat and I must make it myself.
BeatUC I totally agree but not everyone does believe food and diet helps, on this sight. I don't know why diet does not help everyone or if some people did not give it long enough, where strict enough, had the right support to help heal their UC meaning I had a great naturopath who obviously nailed it, or if perhaps the amount of stress or the other triggers in their life is or was just unmanagable(my trigger I believe was my dad having dementure and guilt I felt for living so far away, he passed away and it was a blessing, I used to joke if UC doesn't kill me dementure will and I just won't remeber" but behind the joke was a very sad woman who could not deal with seeing her father waste away so far away, and I felt ripped off because our children did not get to go fishing with poppy). This is a comment for beatUC not to start an arguement so please nobody take offence, everyone lives in different circumstances in different parts of the world using different foods that have had different additives ect ect. I am not trying to upset anyone just thinking outloud. Remeber I think UC is a nasty, horrible, degrading disease and children should get a free pass, every child should get to experience a good childhood, with food and toys and no stress, pain or disease but with love and nurturing. Okay I am so grateful that I am in remission but I also worked hard to get to remssion and have given up different foods but it is just a different path I chose when I came to a crossroad in life. No different to any other decision we have to choose all the time, sometimes we make good choices other times we don't it is all about learning from our mistakes. OMG I sound like my mother, I love my mother and she is normally right at a ripe old age of 83 she has divuticulitis I know I spelt that wrong. Talking to much have to stop now.

mum of 3

Diet is very much a factor for me- I stay on a low carb version of the SCD. Although to this day I am not very convinced about the science behind the SCD, this low carb SCD is the trial and error diet that I have ended up on that minimizes the frequency of mini-flares. I have to be very strict about avoiding sweet things - including honey and fruit as well- and sadly I find it best to avoid even yogurt (I used to love SCD 24-hour yogurt as well as Fage greek yogurt but both will give me D). On the positive side, sticking to this diet has allowed me to be med free and remission now for going on 9 months, other than LDN 4.5 mg/day which I plan to stick with indefinitely. Nine months ago I was on humira and prednisone and about to commit to surgery- LDN seemed to play a role, as did ceasing a multi-year experiment with several worm therapies that never paid off at all, other than some slight dampening of symptoms when I was spending a fortune on TSO.

I dont eat dairy anymore thank goodnes I have learn to love my rice milk home made mueseil for beakfast with 1 serving of fresh fruit, I sometimes miss icecream and yoghurt but then I think of how I am UC free and in remission and on no meds and I think na!!! I dont want icecream but I would kill for a pizza which used to give me some of worst flares straight to the toilet. My multivitamin is the rejuven x as it has all I need and then some. Never heard of worm therapies till I came on here sounds hmmm unsure.
UC does not seem to like gluten/dairy/caffeine/pizza and red meat for me

mum of three

It's still not an accurate question poll...
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Everyone is different, however I have found that for me.....avoidance of all WHOLE GRAINS are essential is easing UC symptoms. IMO, white sticky rice (Asian style), potatoes, white bread, etc... are better choices than whole grain products like breads, bagels, oatmeal, cereals and such. LOW FIBER= LESS IRRITATION.