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Posted 1/2/2014 10:19 PM (GMT 0)
I see Q's point: Everyone has foods that trigger D, gas and such - even normal folk, haha.

But does anyone have a food that they would not eat or be very hesitant to eat for fear of say ending up the next day with blood/mucus/pain? So full blown UC type symptoms?

Or do most believe that food(s) are unrelated?
Posted 1/2/2014 10:20 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry for some reason it would not let me make a reply on my other thread... darn website
Posted 1/2/2014 10:21 PM (GMT 0)
Cows dairy is a huge trigger for me. Nuts and seeds as well. Hope that goes away once I'm in remission as I love both!
Posted 1/2/2014 10:59 PM (GMT 0)
- Nuts (Cashews love them but my gut hates it), but I can somehow consume naturally peanut butter without any harm.
- Lettuce
- Dairy
- Red meat in some
- Wheat and gluten, HATES ME and some people
- Cherries or any pit fruits
- Strawberries in large amounts
- Any corn products
- Apples, but I can drink McIntosh apple juice but nothing else or have problems
- Pickles
- Certain spices
- Cauliflower
- Cabbage

I think that's it lol
Posted 1/2/2014 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
oh yes. all the foods i listed in the other thread cause me diarrhea, gas, pain, cramps, but not blood or mucous. no one food causes blood or mucous for me.
Posted 1/2/2014 11:06 PM (GMT 0)
Was able to eat gluten freely before antibiotics. Now it will cause neuropathy symptoms, so I have to go out of my way to avoid it until my body "recovers" from the damage.
Posted 1/2/2014 11:17 PM (GMT 0)
That I find interesting Stealth - I think after antibiotics is when my gluten type intolerance set in, though I don't think I show neuropathy symptoms from it.

Off Topic but here are two papers on Oral Bacteria and the Gluten Degrading Enzymes they posses:

Identification of Rothia bacteria as gluten-degrading natural colonizers of the upper gastro-intestinal tract.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957450 - older study

The cultivable human oral gluten-degrading microbiome and its potential implications in coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714165 - newer study

It's possible some of us are missing these types of bacteria for one reason or another.
Posted 1/2/2014 11:19 PM (GMT 0)
Haha - I just had a thought - Maybe there's a way for some of us to kiss our way back to good health...
Posted 1/3/2014 12:44 AM (GMT 0)

Canada Mark said...
That I find interesting Stealth - I think after antibiotics is when my gluten type intolerance set in, though I don't think I show neuropathy symptoms from it.

Off Topic but here are two papers on Oral Bacteria and the Gluten Degrading Enzymes they posses:

Identification of Rothia bacteria as gluten-degrading natural colonizers of the upper gastro-intestinal tract.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957450 - older study

The cultivable human oral gluten-degrading microbiome and its potential implications in coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714165 - newer study

It's possible some of us are missing these types of bacteria for one reason or another.

Our microbiome is adapted to handle all sorts of foods from birth, even gluten. It's just when we start messing with it that problems start to crop up - autoimmunity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes can all be traced to a defunct microbiome. I rue the day that I took antibiotics because it opens up avenues for all sorts of issues down the road. I don't need studies to tell me that gluten intolerance is very real.
Posted 1/3/2014 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
Nothing I eat causes blood or mucous but I would have horrible gas pain and or D if I ate big quantities of raw veggies or anything spicy.
Posted 1/3/2014 1:53 AM (GMT 0)
Eggs are a major trigger food for me. I am ok with them in baked goods but eating an egg is now pure torture for me.
Posted 1/3/2014 2:04 AM (GMT 0)
Oddly someone just posted this on the Crohn's Forum:

www.internalmedicinenews.com/single-view/metronidazole-linked-to-increased-risk-for-inflammatory-bowel-disease/e0b9d4e569f93fb3842374225895ecab.html

Many other things are "linked" though lol.. But Metronidazole has some bad effects on the mucus barrier as well. There's a few studies on this drug in particular all with bad news...

As for me - Bread and junk food (fast food - anything really) = me with blood and mucus the next day. I was wondering if others experienced this or the same thing from other foods. This problem really didn't start until after a course of antibiotics now that I really think back hard. Next time I go to my family doctor I'm going to get him to go back through my records and find out what I took just before coming to see him with the first of my symptoms. Was about a four month period as mentioned in the article. Took me a while of hard thinking to remember but I had an infection in my thumb prior (all was well) then I took the antibitoics and a little while later IBD..
Posted 1/3/2014 2:33 AM (GMT 0)
There are foods that will move through too fast because of my IBS, but there's no food that ever triggered my UC. When I was flaring everything killed me, now in remission I pretty much eat what I want, limiting fat and fiber because of the IBS.
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