Yogurt

I've been seeing a nutritionist to help me lose weight and control my IBS and UC. I've found that eating yogurt for breakfast is killing me. I only have three choices for breakfast: one whole egg with three egg whites and spinach leaves, oatmeal with either strawberries or blueberries, and yogurt with granola and dried cranberries. The first few times I had it, I did not experience any problems. The last few weeks, I've experiences gas and bloating 4 or 5 hours AFTER I've eaten the yogurt. I usually experience the gas after eating lunch. It doesn't matter what I have for lunch because I get the same symptoms when I eat yogurt.

Do you guys have any suggestions as to which yogurt may not cause as many problems? Should I avoid it all together? Thanks! :)

 

I find that despite the gassiness and discomfort, I move my bowels and have formed bm a few days after eating the yogurt. I guess I will only have the yogurt for breakfast when I know I don't have any plans for a particular day! :-D

Heather

I get the exact same symptoms from store bought yogurt. I suspect it is the whey that does it to me.

I tried to follow the simple carbohydrate diet a few years ago and that diet makes a lot of recommendation for tolerating yogurt. The SCD recommends making your own yogurt and letting it ferment for 24 hours. This will allow the bacteria to eat most of the lactose. If you still can't tolerate it then make it with goat's milk. If the goat's milk doesn't do the trick then you can drip the yogurt for 8 hours. This is what I had to do and I still do this when I want to eat yogurt.

I make the SCD yogurt, let it cool in the fridge overnight and then I would hang it in a cloth bag or put it in a colander with a dish towel in it so the liquid could drip out of it for 8 hours. My understanding is that the liquid that drips off is whey or milk protein. The yogurt that is left is closer to cream cheese and it is very good.

If you don't want to go through the effort of making yogurt you could try dripping plain store bought yogurt. I don't think I would let store bought yogurt sit out in room temp for 8 hours, so you could try dripping it in the fridge.

Eating yogurt really does change the bacteria in the colon. When I was following SCD, I did a stool test through a private lab and the good bacteria type in the yogurt was very high.

Good luck.

Making my own SCD recipe yogurt is the only way I can eat yogurt because of the lactose in the commercial stuff.  I go thru about a 1/2 gal a week and it's a great source of probiotics along with the Primidolphus Reuteri I take, not to mention a great source of calcium.

 

Could it be the cranberries?

Can't do yogurt nor the frozen kind even when taking Lactaid caplets

I have tried going completely dairy (lactose-free obviously) free but it hasn't made a difference, but I notice that I only tolerate SCD yogurt so long as I don't have more than 2 cups a day or so, or if I have a bit more, take a day off the yogurt. I make it with half and half, which I tolerate much better than whole milk (as for less fat than whole, forget it), which as a fringe benefit tastes better and is thicker and firmer. Note that if you use half and half, absolutely positively make sure it lists as ingredients only "heavy cream and milk" as opposed to any other ingredients commonly used in h&h and heavy cream, which are also used to induce colitis in lab animals, namely carrageenan.