UC diet....SCD, Paleo...?

Vangirl said...
Hi,

I am desperate for remission and willing to try anything. I know drs say diet doesn't play a role but anyone out there have success when nothing else worked? I see a lot about SCD and Paleo which seem really restrictive but I'm willing to try!!! What about just gluten free and/or dairy free??

Thanks!!

i was diagnosed 3 years ago and things like cheese and chocolate would give me a flare up so i just cut all dairy from my diet and train regularly the flare ups seem to have stoped for the past year so i must be doin somthin right you should give cutting out dairy ago for a few months and if that doesnt work just try somthin else. I asked my doctor for a diet plan when i was first diagnosed with uc and was told its different for everyone and it was all about trial and error.

Imagardener- that's so true about the becoming fearful of food. I had to back off scd due to this, I was developing severe issues towards food. I love your suggestion of trying things slowly that's what I am trying instead. That way I won't lose my mind lol.

There are several different diets out there that UC'rs do - some of which are completely opposite of each other. There is not one diet that is guaranteed to work in everyone. It is all trial and error. One diet works in one person, a different diet in another, and others get no benefit with any diet at all. You kind of just have to put a blindfold on, pick one out of a hat and hope you're lucky.

There are so many variables to it all it is sometimes almost impossible to tell what's what. Sometimes things get found guilty which aren't guilty at all and sometimes things are given credit when the reality is they didn't help at all. This holds true even for meds. I have seen study after study after study results where the patients were all on different levels of maintenance meds along with the study med, making the study results questionable.

One thing to suggest about gluten-free--don't start eating store-made products labelled "gluten-free" because they might have other ingredients that cause problems. Plus they are expensive and most of them taste like crap.

Gluten-free means stop eating bread, pasta and anything with wheat not loading up on stuff from the gluten-free aisle of the grocery. It might take some shifting of your brain about what to eat but after a week it gets easier. There are lots of gluten-free recipe books, check your library. But again, don't start buying weird products for recipes, just cut out wheat and other gluten sources.

Many people advice to go with a vegan raw diet, only fruits and vegetables, and it has solved their IBD problems (colitis and Crohn) according to them.

Also remove all gluten (replace wheat floor by rice floor, buckwheat floor, quinoa floor, chesnut floor ), and dairy products .

If you can, buy a juicer and make this recommended juice:
3 to 6 carrots
2 apples
150g spinach
1 cm. Ginger root

There are also bad things to avoid and eliminate, that are common to all of us because they are harmful: dairy, processed foods, gluten, alcohol

While UC'rs in general have more problems with certain food groups than does the general population I wouldn't say that there are any food groups that are common to ALL of us. Dairy and lactose is probably the worst but I have no problems eating dairy or lactose at all. I also don't have any problems with gluten. While one could probably successfully argue that processed foods are bad for your health overall, I don't think there is one shred of evidence that it makes the average UC'rs symptoms worse and not one shred of evidence that just adapting a healthy lifestyle is guaranteed to help UC'rs. Many people have gotten UC who were already into a healthy lifestyle. In fact, some people came down with UC immediately after converting to a healthy lifestyle in much the same manner as some people came down with UC immediately after quitting smoking.

In my research on UC I have discovered that many UC'rs are low on the digestive enzyme DAO, which helps break down dietary histamines. In these people, which include me, ingesting foods and drinks high in histamines make us worse. High histamine foods include aged dairy items, processed foods, most alcohols, and many items which contain gluten because yeast is high in histamines and many gluten items contain yeast. So, in some people, some of these food groups are wrongly blamed when it is really their histamine content that is to blame. Since taking the digestive enzyme DAO before meals I can eat these items once again with no problems.

or carry a suitcase full of doa pills everywhere like gary ;-)

Do you consider "quinoa" as grains ?

Avoid chocolate, dairy, wheat. I eat everything else fine. The things in my sig really help so that I do not have to worry sitting in long meetings most days now that I am managing a technical team ( more meetings less time heads down with ability to roam at any time )