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Posted 8/21/2011 4:40 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all,

I just wanna ask u guys if bread is a sth godd or bad for us UC' ers. Lately I have been trying to go on the low carb diet after a flare up that went on two months. I cut out all breads and replaced flour with almond meal. I also ate lots of viggies, fruits ( cooked) and poultry. while on this diet ( trial) stools were watery and I visited the bathroom 4 times/ 24 h. In the last week I decided to go back to bread and rice. Result : diarrhea stopped, and I ended up with very well formed stools. Toilet trips reduced to once a day.
I just wonder if Gluteen is bad for me or not. I cant maintain good digestion without rice and bread and I wonder am I doing any harm to my colon by eating bread and rice.

Thanks

UC Chanlelnger

UC? dignosed 3years ago,
Two major flares,
Now on Mesalazine,
Posted 8/21/2011 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
UC challlllenger,

Low carb is different than wheat free or gluten free. Maybe that's why rice agrees with you but regular wheat bread does not.

Everyone is so different - some can't tolerate wheat, gluten, or carbs all together - it depends on your system. I can tell you that in general, many UCers have been helped by SCD diet - specific carbohydrate diet.

I know that I cannot tolerate dairy, wheat, gluten.

My advise is for you to start a food journal and see what correlations arise, no?


 

Posted 8/21/2011 5:10 PM (GMT 0)
I am doing SCD.
In 2 years i've got off SCD and re-inserted bread into my diet two times (both in my first year on the diet). For the first days/week my stools improved only to have major setbacks after, much worse than before. Both my UC and AS started to go down the hill. So i gave up bread for good. After 1 year on the diet and after many experiments my stools become more ok and i've entered remission.

So for me bread is bad.
And yes, keeping a food journal will probably help. For me it did.
Posted 8/21/2011 5:13 PM (GMT 0)
From reading many posts over the past few years, my conclusion is that we're all different.
And for each of us, the rules often change over the course of years with UC, so what is true at one point might not hold true later. Early on, the food that I subsisted on during flares was pasta!

As So Fla said, many have been helped by the SCD. For others, carbs/gluten/dairy don't make a big difference. A food journal is your very best bet.
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