Is papaya that good for people with UC?

this isn't true haha i've never heard of this before.

I hate to say it, but from my perspective, no food item is good for colitis. everything i eat comes out painfully, explosively and in 10 trips to the toilet lol.

I am the opposite of notsosicklygirl. While excluding or including stuff in my diet did not help me much (I still saw some kind of improvement from leaving out dairy), I still think proper eating is having a very important role in UC.

All of us know very well UC is a disease in the last part of the intestines. In my case I noticed the better a food is digested when it reaches this part, the less symptoms. Now it might be impossible to get completely without symptoms if you have really severe case of UC, but I am sure it is possible to improve the situation.

If papaya got good enzymes, it might really help the digestion. I do not know. Here comes a few other things I do in order to improve my digestion:

1. Eat at most 3 times a day at regular times. This will give better stomach juices as the stomach has time to rest between. Do not overeat. Overeating will cause bad digestion.

2. Avoid drinking to food as it will dilute the acids in your stomach. Also the breaking down of carbohydrates begin in your mouth. If you rinse down the food you do not chew in the same much enzymes. Also it will dilute the acid in your stomach. Drink plenty between the meals so you do not get dehydrated.

These two points are difficult to follow in the beginning as you have difficult to get enough spit for chewing and you will feel hungry. Give it one week and those problems are gone. I am even gaining weight nowadays.

3. Avoid mixing different kind of foods. This thing made maybe the biggest difference for me and got me off medicines completely. You should follow what is in general called "food combining":
-Divide food into
* Neutral (Cucumber, lettuce etc)
* Proteins (Peanuts, soy, egg, etc)
* Carbohydrates (Grains, seeds, potato etc)
* Fruits
- Combine "Neutral" freely with proteins or carbohydrates. Fruits, proteins and carbohydrates should always be in separate meals.

Proteins and carbohydrates need different pH for working efficiently and mixing them will make the digesting system to make a compromize and less optimal digestion.

The earlier food gets broken down, the less problem I get. My theory is that bacteria are making nasty things out of undigested food. Often in humans, the bacteria itself is not the problem, but the toxins produced by them are.

I was not able to take walks even and I flared badly. Proper eating solved my problems really quickly and in just one day I could begin to take mini-walks. From there on I got better to the degree that nothing is visible in a colonoscopy. Now this might not be the case for everybody, but those suggestions I wrote are not harmful for anyone to try.