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Posted 1/31/2016 6:52 AM (GMT 0)
Emerging from an acute flare that required hospitalisation. Doing well on Remicade and Azathioprine with Pred tapering. I have to say that I believe my diet has really helped with the recovery. Specific Carb diet with lots of fish, chicken and avocado. Nice homemade chicken soups and stews. My favourite is homemade cocina squash and leek soup with plenty of fresh tumeric and ginger. Delicious and nourishing. Also my nutritionist recommended stewed apples with cinnamon which I have with coconut milk yoghurt or coconut milk frozen yoghurt. Is is unbelievably delicious and apparently the apple helps the gut healing. It all seems to working alongside the medication. Everyone's different but these are my favourites. Bowel movements formed and no more than 4 a day. No grains, no dairy and no alcohol are really helping.
Hate UC but love food!!!
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Posted 1/31/2016 12:55 PM (GMT 0)
I hope your recovery continues. Diet mod. was my biggest assist to remission but in your case you have major drugs doing a lot of heavy lifting too. The best thing about diet mod (besides UC healing) is that it is a generally healthy way to eat. My husband (non-UC) just got his blood test back and his cholesterol is almost perfect and I'll give diet mod. a lot of the credit since he eats what I cook for UC haha.

Hope your improvement is long term when pred. is gone.
Posted 1/31/2016 4:37 PM (GMT 0)
Glad to hear you're on the mend. I've found SCD to be a good supplement to my meds as well. I reached out to a researcher at Stanford University and she said she's seeing an amazing response to SCD for a percentage of her Crohn's patients in a clinical study. They are still tallying the data. Results should be posted this year. I wouldn't be surprised to find it is at least as effective as many of the drugs out there.

I had skipped the SCD yogurt for a few weeks and have been feeling like I'm on the verge of a flare. I ate some yesterday and I feel like it calmed things down for me today.
Posted 2/1/2016 7:11 AM (GMT 0)
Hi chaps! Yes - this is all very encouraging. Very interested to hear about the research at Stanford - I certainly feel that there is much less of a battle going on in my insides particularly being grain free. Also I am enjoying eating different starchy vegetables like squash and celeriac so it's no major hardship. The stewed apple is lovely with coconut milk yoghurt so I have a lovely pudding as well. Down to 15 mg Pred and holding steady before third Remicade! Missing the booze but that was doing me no favours anyway!! Hoping to drop another stone in weight which should also help the inflammation. Good luck to you! Catherine xxx
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