Corn Before & After UC

Before having UC any corn I ate was not fully digested and looked like it just mostly passed through. I have heard this happens to many other people as well. Since coming down with UC I never see corn in my stool, not even a little bit, ever, and I eat it several times per week. It gets fully digested and the scientist/biologist in me is fascinated with this. Why does this seem to smack UC logic in the face?

DOA

We don't digest all of the corn...and unless you chew it extremely well, in loose stool or diarrhea, it'll look the same as it goes down the gullet.

When you're not flaring, and stools are more formed, they'll be in the colon longer, mixed with compacted stool substance, hiding for none to see. Of course, they do get fancy on occasion...decorating the outer parts of the stool...waiting for those who don't know what's going on...to freak out!

It's normal...with any food to go faster or slower through the digestion process, to be either annihilated or remain intact or somewhere in between.

Even horses have corn in their poo, but when it's mixed with fresh grass, it's surely more visible....because splattered poo shows more than clumped poo.

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corn is the ONLY food that gives my dad UC symptoms. he says everytime he eats it, he sees blood. i'm like "yeah, finally something bothers you and your UC acts like it exists."

Pre-UC, I would see it in formed stools. After UC, it hates me, especially fresh. Like it has a hate-on for me or something.

I miss corn :( I absolutely love corn on the cob but that is now one of my forever forbidden foods because of my DD. Before DD, I would eat it on occasion regardless of the outcome. Sometimes I would see it and sometimes not. I always wondered why too.

Corn if awful -- and note the livestock is mainly fed on corn now so it is infecting our meats and it is in so many products.. That being said, eat what you want, you aren't sensitive to Gluten (biggest con job since something) unless you have Celiacs, which you likely don't. --- exercise, take metamucil, overdose on Tumeric. Case closed. If you believe it, you will achieve it! (well, 20% of the time or so using placebo power or kill your body for 40% success on biologics.)

I don't have a theory. Beats the crap out of me. That's why I made this post. I really don't understand that when I'm healthy the corn goes right through but when I have UC it seems to fully digest. Makes no sense to me. If I did have to take a wild guess though the most logical conclusion is that my gut microbes when I was healthy could not digest corn but with the imbalance of gut microbes due to my UC the bacteria I currently have love to eat the corn.

I can not pinpoint to your question but I do not find it surprising at all.

I am reading, Bugs, Bowels and behavior. Although I studied microbiology for 3 years, I came across so many weird bug names in this book and the kind of weird stuff that they do. I wouldn't be really surprised if pyrosequencing of gut bugs finds some bug that exclusively feeds on complex sugar in corn (and hence the digestion).

Whats your expertise BTW?