About once every 7-10 days I have multiple (3-4) loose yellowish stools, the rest of the time it's once a day or every other day. No change in diet, although I wonder about the bucket effect. I have been feeling better and better except for that one day.
I am concerned about the yellow color and why I would suddenly have this type of poop after feeling better and having healthier stools.
Thanks for any feedback.
Need answer please
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Need answer please
MC diagnosed 2007
The yellow stool color is a result of insufficient time for the bile to turn from green to brown (yellow is a transition color). Something in your diet, supplements, or medications is causing increased motility on those days. It might be due to a single discrete item ingested from a half-day to almost a full day prior to the event, or (as you suggest) it might be due to a slow buildup of histamines in your system. It could even be caused by a stressful event that occurs at the same cyclic rate as the symptom retrograde. For example, do you have to deal with someone or some thing that you detest, the day before those episodes?
Have you tried taking an antihistamine? Either reducing the amount of histamine in your diet, and reducing the amount of foods in your diet that cause the degranulation of mast cells, or taking an antihistamine (or doing all of those things) should have a beneficial effect if histamines are the source of your BM deterioration. Antihistamines also might help if stress is driving the symptom.
Tex
Have you tried taking an antihistamine? Either reducing the amount of histamine in your diet, and reducing the amount of foods in your diet that cause the degranulation of mast cells, or taking an antihistamine (or doing all of those things) should have a beneficial effect if histamines are the source of your BM deterioration. Antihistamines also might help if stress is driving the symptom.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks Jon and Tex. Jon, no yellow or orange foods in my diet.
Tex, it could be the yeast in the bread I make and eat everyday. I will eliminate that immediately to find out. I am a very allergy prone person so it makes sense. Can you recommend an antihistamine that doesn't have any of those ingredients we can't usually tolerate. Do you think I need to take one each day? Thanks
Tex, it could be the yeast in the bread I make and eat everyday. I will eliminate that immediately to find out. I am a very allergy prone person so it makes sense. Can you recommend an antihistamine that doesn't have any of those ingredients we can't usually tolerate. Do you think I need to take one each day? Thanks
MC diagnosed 2007
Most members here can tolerate claritin Redi-Tabs (the regular Claritin contains lactose). I take Allegra, because Claritin doesn't seem to work as well for me for seasonal pollen allergies, but we all probably respond somewhat differently to the various formulations.
If a histamine buildup is the problem, then it would probably be necessary to take an antihistamine daily, because the histamine level will be likely to remain high until used or purged. Normally, diamine oxidase (DAO) in our blood purges left-over (unused) histamine from our body, but IBDs tend to deplete or suppress the production of DAO, so some members take histame, because it replaces natural DAO and helps to purge excess histamine from our system. IOW, either method will work (either using histame to purge the excess histamine, or taking an antihistamine to block the histamine receptors so that histamine cannot attach to them). It's usually more practical to just take an antihistamine, and add histame only if antihistamines don't seem to do the job.
But minimizing histamine in the diet may be all that's necessary to control the problem in many cases. In severe cases, it's usually necessary to use all 3 methods (minimizing histamines in the diet, and taking both histame and antihistamines).
It's usually not necessary to take an antihistamine indefinitely, though, because eventually (after a month or so) the inappropriate mast cell activity usually settles down, and things return to normal, and so antihistamines can then be discontinued. We're probably all different in that respect, or the timing, though.
Tex
If a histamine buildup is the problem, then it would probably be necessary to take an antihistamine daily, because the histamine level will be likely to remain high until used or purged. Normally, diamine oxidase (DAO) in our blood purges left-over (unused) histamine from our body, but IBDs tend to deplete or suppress the production of DAO, so some members take histame, because it replaces natural DAO and helps to purge excess histamine from our system. IOW, either method will work (either using histame to purge the excess histamine, or taking an antihistamine to block the histamine receptors so that histamine cannot attach to them). It's usually more practical to just take an antihistamine, and add histame only if antihistamines don't seem to do the job.
But minimizing histamine in the diet may be all that's necessary to control the problem in many cases. In severe cases, it's usually necessary to use all 3 methods (minimizing histamines in the diet, and taking both histame and antihistamines).
It's usually not necessary to take an antihistamine indefinitely, though, because eventually (after a month or so) the inappropriate mast cell activity usually settles down, and things return to normal, and so antihistamines can then be discontinued. We're probably all different in that respect, or the timing, though.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
This is a good article that lists histamine rich foods that may help you:
http://www.judytsafrirmd.com/histamine- ... -low-carb/
http://www.judytsafrirmd.com/histamine- ... -low-carb/
Linda :)
LC Oct. 2012
MTHFR gene mutation and many more....
LC Oct. 2012
MTHFR gene mutation and many more....
Linda,
I agree that's a good article, and I especially like the quote printed before the beginning of the article:
"One only sees what one looks for, one only looks for what one knows." - Goethe
If only our doctors would take the hint.
Tex
I agree that's a good article, and I especially like the quote printed before the beginning of the article:
"One only sees what one looks for, one only looks for what one knows." - Goethe
If only our doctors would take the hint.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
