dairy by accident - stomach ache - quickest way to feel better?

I know we've all been there, order take away food at our favorite spot, make sure to specify no dairy, no cheese, no cream. Forget to check before leaving, arrive home and discover a problem. Two taco's look great, one has white sauce on it. Hmmm, being rather brave today decided to try just a smidgen. Viola, here I sit with a bloated stomach and a continuous dull pain. What do you recommend? I'm surprised I don' have to #2 :-(

thinking I could do:

Chinese herbal tea (did already)
"stomach ease" tea (brewing right now)
Canasa suppository- maybe?
Enema - maybe?
Caffeine (will cause a BM#2, maybe that'll clear me out?)
Cancel my Friday night plans and watch a movie

gotta love a stomach that simply has no regard for what day and time it is!

what would you do to feel better?

worth a try! Thanks *Red*

off to the store I go, holding my stomach

FWIW: from lactaid.com:
You should take LACTAID® Dietary Supplements with the first bite or dairy for maximum effectiveness. Taking it too soon before a meal, or too late after consuming dairy, reduces how well the products can interact with the dairy products in your digestive system.

seems to be working, popped 2 chewables. Thanks for the quick response and thinking.

curious, why would you take Lactaid if you didn't consume dairy?

for future reference, keep some lactaid on hand. after my reaction to the filler in my meds (which of course was lactose) i took a few lactaid pills and they really did make a difference. they can never cause harm. they're just an enzyme, so you don't risk anything except them not working.

Id say fast for the rest of the day. And the pain will go away eventually, dont confuse Lactaid with fixing your problem. The pain would have gone away eventually regardless. Just sip on tea for the rest of the day and dont disturb the sleeping giant until you fully digest it all.

Beachlife,

The idea behind intermittent fasting is that through out the 200,000 years of human evolution, food accessibility wasnt so high. And so the westernized lifestyle of eating 3-6 meals a day has an effect on the GI tract. Its more stimulation to the immune system along the GI tract, and for us genetically susceptible people, might not be so good.

For 3-5 days of the week, I wake up and water fast until 5pm, then eat a large healthy meal. I sometimes drink dark green tea to reduce my appetite. I then eat until 9pm or so and then call it a night.

It allows my GI tract to rest for 20 hours a day, gives my immune system a break and allows my body to clear out mucous and bacteria. And I feel great!

Give it a try, might work.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Controlled%20meal%20frequency%20without%20caloric%20restriction%20alters%20peripheral%20blood%20mononuclear%20cell%20cytokine%20production.

This study speaks of how il-17 and il-23 receptor were down regulated with 1 meal a day compared to 3 meals a day. Il-17 and 23 are major inflammatory chemicals that have to do with autoimmune diseases especially colitis. Im not a scientist, but based on that, and trying eating basically 1 meal a day with snacking after, I feel great...

Melatonin was a major helper for me too, and avoiding eggs and red meats.

Its unnatural to have lights indoors or tv screens or computer screens (didnt exist during evolution), so I dont feel bad taking a melatonin supplement to help regulate my IBS and UC. Sleep was never a problem for me but I started taking it just to see what it was like and it was a major helper, and theres tons of research on how it benifits UC.


My story is that eating 4 eggs a day, school stress, plus I prob had deficanys as a young boy that messed me up, with whatever gentics from my Italian grandfather. He ate like a pig, had heart probs, spinal arthritis and IBS. Mom got IBS and I got colitis at 12. Its alll diet. I was fine for 5 years up until 17 when I got into bodybuilding, and protein powders messed me up for along time... Didnt realize my crapty high gluten, high meat, and the artificial sweetners wrecked my gut flora... Sucralose is a bad bad bad artifical sweetner that actually alters the gut flora, I found a study for it and I was soo shocked. Supplements like melatonin, VSL3, and vitamin D were real big turning points for me. Was always off and on 5-asa and docs and parents woudl get mad at me.... I always knew that it didnt help that much, and research for 5-asa wasn't mind blowing so I dont take em and Im just as fine!

@ColitisMastery - very interesting. thanks, From the link(below). I'm not in the medical field, but wouldn't the results entry indicate no difference? "RESULTS: There were no significant differences
in the inflammatory markers in the serum of subjects on the OMD or TMD diets."

BACKGROUND: Intermittent fasting (IF) improves healthy lifespan in animals by a
mechanism involving reduced oxidative damage and increased resistance to stress.
However, no studies have evaluated the impact of controlled meal frequency on
immune responses in human subjects. OBJECTIVE: A study was conducted to establish
the effects of controlled diets with different meal frequencies, but similar
daily energy intakes, on cytokine production in healthy male and female subjects.
DESIGN: In a crossover study design with an intervening washout period, healthy
normal weight middle-age male and female subjects (n = 15) were maintained for 2
months on controlled on-site one meal per day (OMD) or three meals per day (TMD)
isocaloric diets. Serum samples and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)
culture supernatants from subjects were analyzed for the presence of inflammatory
markers using a multiplex assay. RESULTS: There were no significant differences
in the inflammatory markers in the serum of subjects on the OMD or TMD diets.
There was an increase in the capacity of PBMCs to produce cytokines in subjects
during the first month on the OMD or TMD diets.Lower levels of TNF-alpha, IL-17,
MCP-1 and MIP-1beta were produced by PBMCs from subjects on the OMD versus TMD
diet. CONCLUSIONS: PBMCs of subjects on controlled diets exhibit
hypersensitivities to cellular stimulation suggesting that stress associated with
altered eating behavior might affect cytokine production by immune cells upon
stimulation. Moreover, stimulated PBMCs derived from healthy individuals on a
reduced meal frequency diet respond with a reduced capability to produce
cytokines.