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I am coming off of a self induced flare...darn chocolate brownies were just to hard to resist. My question is if you are pooping whole food, does that mean you should not eat it since it obviously is not being processed???
I have tried eating lettuce but it seems to not like me. I am still in the eat and eliminate phase.
I know I cannot have dairy of any form. Gluten is the question and so is soy, right now.....I know I probably should not eat peas and butter beans but thought I would try and the exited the way they came in.
Yes,
whole food, or undigested particles, means fast motility, inflammation and digestion being ineffective
Things like lettuce are not the ideal things to try so early in your healing journey.
Also peas and beans, and legumes in general are also things that are harder to digest.
well cooked squash, zucchini, carrot, sweet potato are better options for MC'ers
if you are reacting badly to peas, beans etc then there is a high probability that you are reacting to soy (as they are all legumes) and I would really think about avoid ALL soy type things (ie anything with vegetable gum, vegetable oil etc) if you want the digestion to improve.
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
When we are in a severe flair, virtually anything and everything we eat is going to exit that way. About all we can do is to eat bland (seasoned only with a little salt), well-cooked (overcooked), meat and veggies, such as the ones that Gabes suggested, to help the inflammation settle down, and allow our intestines to recover. As the inflammation subsides, our digestion will improve, and our food will be better-digested, so that we will be able to better utilize the nutrients in it. We can't stop eating, because we have to have energy to heal, and poorly-digested food is still better than no food at all.
Never eat any lettuce (especially iceberg lettuce) while you are in the early stages of recovery, because it is one of the most irritating foods I can think of, when our gut is already inflamed. All veggies should be peeled, and overcooked, to make them easier to digest. We have to minimize fiber, because fiber is very irritating to our gut when MC is active, and most of the fiber in vegetables is in the peel. Even then, portion sizes should be limited, because if we eat too much fiber, it can prevent our intestines from healing by continually irritating the mucosal lining.
After we are in remission, and our gut has had 6 or 8 months of additional healing, then we can usually slowly reintroduce additional vegetables and other foods, and eventually we can tolerate raw foods (and even iceberg lettuce) again.
If the brownies contained gluten, then that explains your rather severe reaction. If they were gluten-free, then that suggests that you may be sensitive to either soy (as Gabes mentioned), chocolate, or histamines (chocolate is a high-histamine food).
Good luck and please keep us posted on your progress.
You're very welcome,
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.
