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Keify
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Safe meal plan

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Hello, I am a new member to this website and was diagnosed with lymphocytic colitis about 6 years ago. Recently I got some tests done at Enterolabs, but I am producing antibodies to every food that was tested. So I am not sure what possible safe foods I should eat at the moment to gain remission and harder bowel movements. Here are my test results:
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 80 Units
Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score 819 Units
Fecal Anti-casein IgA 29.2 Units
Fecal Anti ovalbumin IgA 53.1 Units
Fecal Anti-soy 18.7 Units
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 33 Units
Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity: none
Food to which there was some immunological reactivity(1+): White potato
Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity(2+): Rice, Cashew, Walnut, Soy
Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity(3+): Corn, Almond, Milk, Egg, Garbonzo Bean, Sesame Seed
Fecal Anti-oat IgA 33.1 Units
Beef 32.6 Units
Chicken 39.9 Units
Pork 23.9 Units
Tuna 28.5 Units
Any suggestions as to which 4 or 5 foods I should try or a link to a safe meal plan forum would be appreciated, thanks for helping others, Keify
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The link below will take you to a newsletter published by the Microscopic Colitis Foundation a couple of years ago. It offers guidelines on interpreting the Enterolab test results and selecting foods for a safe diet:

https://www.microscopiccolitisfoundatio ... 479987.pdf

If that's not enough, here's a quote from The Microscopic Colitis Diet Book with some selections of foods that should be safe:
Summary
When choosing foods for a recovery diet, ideally, we should choose one to three safe proteins, and one to three safe vegetables, from the lists below. Except in rare cases, these foods are usually safe for most of us. Significant amounts of protein are necessary for healing, so we need to make sure that our diet contains adequate protein. Adequate protein and fat in the diet are essential for good health, but carbohydrates are optional, not essential.

Recovery can be accomplished eating only meat, because meat contains all the essential amino acids that our body needs for good health. But if we choose to go this route, we need to select a fatty meat, or at least make sure that we're ingesting enough fat, so that we avoid the risk of developing the syndrome known as protein poisoning.
We should make sure that we avoid any foods that we were allergic to, or were otherwise sensitive to, before we developed MC. And obviously, if we know that we've become sensitive to any of these foods, since the development of MC, we should continue to avoid them.

Safe Proteins
•turkey
•quail
•duck
•goose
•emu
•lamb
•cabrito (goat)
•venison
•antelope
•rabbit
•shrimp
•muscles
•clams
•prawns
•lobsters
•crabs
•octopus

Safe vegetables
•carrots
•squash
•green beans
•Brussels sprouts
•kohlrabi
•rutabagas
•turnips
•parsnips
•sweet potatoes
•yams
•cassava
•broccoli
•cabbage
•cauliflower
This should help you get started.

Tex
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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.
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