This is my first post so please bear with me! I was diagnosed 1 1/2 yrs ago. I have found so much valuable and helpful info from reading this forum! Thank you! Now I have a question. While visiting family in Seattle during Christmas I wasn't as careful as I should have been and have really been paying dearly for it! Everything I ate hurt as it went down! So, I have been eating rice, homemade bison and chicken broth, and bland vegetables (for me) which have been cooked to death! My question is how do I get the nutrition to my body right now that I would normally get from the food I can eat? I'm taking d3, an enzyme and multivitamin (which I have stopped for now). Should I not worry about that right now and just heal myself? I appreciate any help and suggestions.
Donna
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Gabes-Apg
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welcome to the group!!
(sympathies that you have MC and had to find us)
it is surprising what the nutritional content of the bland diet actually is...
aside from that, when one is inflammed, nutritional absorption via the gut is compromised so the focus is on reducing the inflammation and healing the gut. Once there has been good healing then ascertain if there are nutritional deficiencies
there are some good apps/program that can help with this
here is a discussion and some links to nutrient tracking..
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21892
(sympathies that you have MC and had to find us)
it is surprising what the nutritional content of the bland diet actually is...
aside from that, when one is inflammed, nutritional absorption via the gut is compromised so the focus is on reducing the inflammation and healing the gut. Once there has been good healing then ascertain if there are nutritional deficiencies
there are some good apps/program that can help with this
here is a discussion and some links to nutrient tracking..
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21892
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
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Hi Donna,
Welcome to our Internet family. Yes, just heal yourself. I agree with Gabes. The extent of malabsorption problems while MC is active can be so variable that trying to predict how much nutrition one will get from their diet is an exercise in futility. The most practical approach seems to be as Gabes suggested, to eat a bland diet that avoids inflammatory foods, in order to minimize the recovery time. Then after we are in remission, and our digestion improves, we can address any nutritional needs that might be significant. You seem to have a good grasp of what is needed to achieve remission.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
Welcome to our Internet family. Yes, just heal yourself. I agree with Gabes. The extent of malabsorption problems while MC is active can be so variable that trying to predict how much nutrition one will get from their diet is an exercise in futility. The most practical approach seems to be as Gabes suggested, to eat a bland diet that avoids inflammatory foods, in order to minimize the recovery time. Then after we are in remission, and our digestion improves, we can address any nutritional needs that might be significant. You seem to have a good grasp of what is needed to achieve remission.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
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.