Sulfur, sulfides & UC, a medical study.

Hi.
I've found this:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q212420164588062/

verry interesting.

After googling "sulfite" and "thiamin" (from another thread) I am intrigued at how the two are connected.
www.gopetsamerica.com/substance/vitamin-b1.aspx

Sulfites can be present in many many foods and may not be listed on the ingredients. FDA has banned sulfites from use on raw food which may explain why UC'ers do better with unprocessed food (no sulfites). I am now really fascinated at how thiamin enters into the picture.

Apparently the overconsumption of sulfites can deplete thiamin (Vitamin B1). Could this be the root of our UC problem? Too many sulfites (without realizing it) and not enough thiamin in our diets because of sulfite overuse.

I don't think I eat many or any foods with sulfites but will now take a good look and remove any. As well as upping my thiamin intake, continuing with sunflower seeds. My UC is currently pretty well under control but better is better.

Spinach contains sulfites I think (need to double check). So do eggs - can you tolerate those? Why does sulfasalazine work for UC if this is the case?

ImaG, interesting, thanks.
I've heard this theory before but then a few months ago the big news was an article about broccoli (and plantains) extending remission in IBD.
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Everything I eat is on the list I have read this stuff before. I eat meat, cheese, dairy, etc all day long.

killcolitis....the sulfa in sulfasalazine is the carrier of the 5ASA  to the colon. the sulfa is believed to help with joint pain and apparently helps cirrhosis which I've recently read.

I dont' think the sulfa helps with the colon actually.

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Actually all of my daughter's GIs (three of them) have said that ssz is more effective than other ASAs because of the antimicrobal/antibiotic effect (in the colon).

ENIGMAWRAP said...
]while it doesn't help anything, it doesn't seem to hurt either....

There is a subjective point of view of how we see our UC and and objective one. both are relevant, and probably for us the subjective one is the most important. Anyway they are correlated.

the subjective one may include: bowel movements, pain, whether we have or we do not have D and so on.

the objective one may include: bleeding, blood tests, colonoscopy results, biopsy results and so on.

This study focused on the objective point of view mostly. So you can feel that red meat is no trouble to you, but are you certain that while you have it on your table you are not contribuing to mantaining the inflamation in your gut? Inflamation does not necessarely means D or even bleeding, you can have ulcerations in your colon whithout those - like i do for example. I have active UC without D or blood most of the time.

So it's hard for me to say that red meat or brocoli don't hurt and this way to put aside a good medical study based on scientific evidences.

P.S.
I too put a lot of wheight on the subjective point of view since i am doing the SCD.

@ immagardener2
I am a carnivore my self, so i understand your point of view 101%.

Before stumbling onto this sulfur/sulfides information this week i've started a test to see wich meat will prove more beneficial for me: red meat (pork, beaf) or white one (chicken, fish).
So i've ate all this week only red meat.

Next week i will do the "white meat" diet, eating the same foods i've ate this week exactly, only swapping the red meat with the white one.

Since I keep a food&symptoms journal, thins will be easy i guess.
I will post the results next week. I am having my questions after this red meat week, but before drawing any conclusions I'll better wait for the next week test too.

Hope your remission will last at least 10 years or more better - forever - ony any diet you have :)