Sushi?

I went to all you can eat sushi probably at least twice a week while I was having the worst flare of my UC history.. Didn't really notice anything, although I was on prednisone. My only complaint was the extremely high amount of salt in the soy sauce and it adding to the water retention resulting in my massive chipmunk cheeks.. With that said, I basically only eat the salmon (nigir, rolls and sashimi) and the miso soup and rice obviously. I've never had an issue with rice for my UC, I actually notice things are better for me when i'm consuming rice.

Awesome thanks! Guess I'll give it a go (avoiding the spicy)! Not that I have any choice :)

Bananagirl - any tips on maintaining a vegan and gluten-free diet? I was a vegan prior to this diagnosis but am having a hard time finding things to eat to keep going on. A mainstay of mine, black beans, are a total no-go when flaring. Do you still eat raw fruits/veggies? Salads seemed to bother me as well.

Thanks again!

MRM, i don't eat a lot of food. i just can't during flares. i live off of orange juice, kombucha, cooked and raw veggies, cooked greens, nuts/seeds, smoothies, nutritional yeast, and olives. i'm definitely very far from healthy and my calorie intake should not be followed by anyone that wants to be healthy haha i can't eat any beans either because of the gas. when i'm not flaring, i can eat whatever foods i want.

I'd never eat raw meat/fish ever. Make your choices.

I've had california sushi rolls.  Liked them at first, now even the thought of them makes me gag. 

All you can do is try it and see how you feel.

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Sushi is one of my favoritist things ever to eat. I feel so wonderful after I eat it.

I try to stay away from anything with tempura because of the gluten. I also use gluten free soy sauce. I love salmon sashimi! My favorite roll has salmon and avocado, our local sushi place calls it a Toronto roll. I feel so much better after eating sushi, it makes me wonder if there's something in it like the 'magic' of l-threonine that many folks here experienced

The downside to raw fish is that you are sort of playing Russian roulette (which I think quincy was alluding to) as far as the parasite thing goes. My U/C started not to long after I became a sushi addict and I will always wonder if that's the cause.

I am trying to get a stool test done but in Canada you don't 'tell' your doctor to do anything, they have to agree to it.

I think a distinction needs to be made with this question. There's really sushi which is primarily raw fish and rice, then there's the American "sushi" which is fried shrimp or fake crab stuffed inside rolls of rice with lots of creamy sauces and stuff.

I'm wondering primarily about the raw stuff as anything raw has a higher count of bacteria, though raw foods are better for digestion.

As for the parasite thing, there are many studies right now about the idea at we've killed all the parasites and bacteria they give us a healthy digestive tract, and that the countries that still have parasites in their food and water have very low occurrences of digestive disorders. UC is very rare in Japan where raw fish intake is very high.

I'm just wondering if once you have UC, if the bacteria affects it more than usual.

my advice would be to stay away from the tempura. i have sushi once in a while & have never noticed any negative side effects, even when dipping copiously in the soy sauce (yum). i stick to mostly salmon, tuna & veggie type rolls - although have had rolls with shrimp or crab & those were fine too.

I love sushi yet I have been noticing the last couple times I have eaten it I am in the washroom halfway through my meal. Last time I had major stomach pains after eating it... everyone else was fine. I was starting to wonder if it was the UC and kind of scared to eat it again.

Never Eva Eva again. Parasites are no joke.. And for those that say that say the Japanese yadda yadda eat it all the time.. They also have very different gut biomes and dont eat abx or rx drugs like we do.

Wow! i am surprised at the bad reactions to sushi. I have been eating it for more than 40 years without a problem. I make my own as well as eating at sushi restaurants.

I have never had a parasite or bacterial infection from it. My gut bacteria is Canadian caucasian.

A few diet restrictions I use: low sodium msg free soy sauce; very little wasabi; make sure the ginger is fresh and without color additives; no fish that is difficult to digest such as geoduck, octopus or shrimp; only go to restaurants that use very fresh, sustainable seafood. Easy to digest seafoods include abalone, salmon, ahi tuna, mackerel, unagi (fresh water eel served cooked), crab, and Krab.

Sushi was the first solid food I ate after my colon was removed.

Other easy to digest ethnic restaurants that are very safe during a uc flare are Thai or Vietnamese. Avoid buckwheat or udon noodles, they take longer to digest and can be painful during a flare. Rice noodles are easily digested.

I hope you have fun!

I agree that diet will not cure uc but there are and were some foods that would cause me increased D during a flare. I could eat those same foods when I was not in a flare. Nowadays, I am working my way through the FODMAP elimination diet to figure out what will help keep my chronic pouchitis in check. So far, I react to the same foods that caused problems during my uc flares.

It has been very interesting to learn about the reactions different uc people have to different foods. There is definitely not one way of eating that helps everyone. I wish there was....

I don't eat of lot of sushi but I really like dragon eyes, which is basically salmon sushi that's tempura fried and it comes with a really delicious sauce. But the fried part might not be so good. I'm also a big fan of tempura veggies. And teriyaki chicken. And udon. I really like Japanese food.