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Posted 8/27/2011 8:16 PM (GMT 0)
I find that my daughters stools seem to change based on what she eats- especially sugar

Can that happen rather quickly?

Do you get alarmed if you eat something and then you have looser stools a few hours later?

An example she had what I call a perfect poop this morning but after eating some foods with

sugar her poop later in the day was less formed with a bit of pink in her poop.

Thanks for any feedback

Posted 8/27/2011 9:38 PM (GMT 0)
I am sensitive to gluten but can eat it for a few days before the symptoms come back to haunt me. But eating other foods like shellfish, spicy kale, or Starbucks Frappucino at lunch will give me diarrhea that evening. I can eat moderate amounts of cane sugar in chocolate but high fructose corn syrup in soda and most candy are bad for me.
Posted 8/27/2011 11:57 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, I mostly control my UC with food choices, although I am fairly well healend not having seen blood in over a year I eat just about anything including sugar but no fake sugars. The big thing is I only drink water, coconut water, no milk no soda and no fake sugar, I also eat yogurt and a little keefir but no more milk just to be sure - seems to be working. I eat several loaves of bread each week, I aim for the oat dominant blends.
Posted 8/28/2011 12:03 AM (GMT 0)
I've found that pizza gives me diarrhea within 24 hours, regardless of how well I was doing beforehand. Still trying to determine if it's the cheese, wheat or tomato sauce that is most at fault. Currently heavy amounts of cheese and tomato sauce are on the top of the crap list.
Posted 8/28/2011 2:50 AM (GMT 0)

badslinke said...
I've found that pizza gives me diarrhea within 24 hours, regardless of how well I was doing beforehand. Still trying to determine if it's the cheese, wheat or tomato sauce that is most at fault. Currently heavy amounts of cheese and tomato sauce are on the top of the crap list.

Funny how different we all are. I made my daughter pizza for dinner and had a few slices, not exactly the right food for the body composition I want but it causes me no problems.
Posted 8/28/2011 2:27 PM (GMT 0)
I am in the camp where I do not believe that foods can cause a flare, but I do believe that when the colon is inflamed or fragile that certain foods can aggravate it. I have that too, some days I will have the perfect poo (for me anyway) and than when I go again, it's D or looser stools. It doesn't matter what I eat for that to happen, but I found that some foods bring it on faster. Sugar is not one of them for me, but we are so very individualistic when it comes to what we can consume or can't consume.
Posted 8/28/2011 2:57 PM (GMT 0)
Sugar and grains are pro-inflammatory. Could be a factor.

 

Posted 8/28/2011 3:03 PM (GMT 0)
Refined sugar produces mucous for me. It usually is within 10-12 hours.
Posted 8/28/2011 9:39 PM (GMT 0)
Gas producing foods will be surely exacerbated when I'm flaring, so I would tend to be a bit more conservative when I eat them.

I would cut back a bit on the coffee if I'm out and about, and maybe give my husband half my salad instead of me having a whole one. If I'm nauseated, that pretty much rules, and I eat only what I crave.

Food has no bearing on causing flares, but if I have exacerbated symptoms because of what I eat, I'll adjust for sure.

I never go to no food, liquid diet or brat/white food diet...I've never done that even at my worst.

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Posted 8/29/2011 12:56 PM (GMT 0)
IBDISTHEPITS,

IMO and experience, food has a huge impact on UC.

I agree with Babe on the high fructose corn syrup - that is very bad for UC, and it's in almost everything. You have to read all the labels very carefully.

But maybe she should start a food journal to see exactly what correlations exist, no?

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