Alcohol?????
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Alcohol?????
Quick question. Does anyone know if alcohol will affect me if I have one or 2 drinks? Thanks
Tami,
I know that alcohol is considered in general to be a GI tract irritant, even for people without MC. All of us are different though, as far as what and how much of anything we can tolerate. If it were me, I would avoid (and am avoiding) alcohol and anything else known to irritate the colon until I healed. Once you've healed, you may want to try tiny bits of alcohol (and I don't really know much about different types, but I don't think all are created equal) and of any other food just to test yourself on it to see how much, if any, you can take. A word of warning, though: if you're doing the GF diet, some alcohol, especially beer, does have gluten in it, so do check that out.
So the short answer is: I think it's pretty likely that alcohol would irritate your colon.
Good luck,
Courtney
I know that alcohol is considered in general to be a GI tract irritant, even for people without MC. All of us are different though, as far as what and how much of anything we can tolerate. If it were me, I would avoid (and am avoiding) alcohol and anything else known to irritate the colon until I healed. Once you've healed, you may want to try tiny bits of alcohol (and I don't really know much about different types, but I don't think all are created equal) and of any other food just to test yourself on it to see how much, if any, you can take. A word of warning, though: if you're doing the GF diet, some alcohol, especially beer, does have gluten in it, so do check that out.
So the short answer is: I think it's pretty likely that alcohol would irritate your colon.
Good luck,
Courtney
Tami,
Personally, I usually make a decision about whether or not to have a drink depending on how my stomach is that day. I have good days and not-so-good days.
If it's a good day, I can tolerate just a little.
I'm not sure medically if it's harmful or not, though. I bet Tex would know the scientific reasoning!!
Sometimes if I'm out, I don't chance it, just to save myself the agony of running to the restroom.
Personally, I usually make a decision about whether or not to have a drink depending on how my stomach is that day. I have good days and not-so-good days.
If it's a good day, I can tolerate just a little.
I'm not sure medically if it's harmful or not, though. I bet Tex would know the scientific reasoning!!
Sometimes if I'm out, I don't chance it, just to save myself the agony of running to the restroom.
From Drugs.com
Avoid drinking alcohol while you are taking prednisone.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV.
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
Hi Tami,
I agree with the responses that you've received so far. Joan is correct, of course, in pointing out that alcohol should be avoided while you are taking prednisone. If you want a reference on that, see this site, and scroll down to where it says, "What should I avoid while taking prednisone?":
http://www.drugs.com/prednisone.html
After you stop taking prednisone, whether or not you drink alcohol will be a personal choice, (so long as it does not seem to cause problems). For many years, the celiac sites all warned about alcohol as a source of gluten, but this mistaken information was based on an incorrect assumption that the gluten in wheat that was fermented and distilled in the production of alcohol, was transmitted into the final product. That does not happen, of course, since in reality, there is no way that a protein can be transmitted by means of the distillation process. Pure alcohol is gluten-free.
As Courtney mentioned, though, beer, and certain blended products that blend the alcohol back with a malt of some form, do indeed contain gluten. Technically, they contain hordein, (not gluten), but hordein is the prolamin in barley, (the source of malt), that is the equivalent of gluten in wheat, and anyone who is gluten intolerant, will also be hordein intolerant, (and secalin intolerant, also, for that matter - secalin is the prolamin in rye, that is the equivalent of gluten in wheat).
Tex
I agree with the responses that you've received so far. Joan is correct, of course, in pointing out that alcohol should be avoided while you are taking prednisone. If you want a reference on that, see this site, and scroll down to where it says, "What should I avoid while taking prednisone?":
http://www.drugs.com/prednisone.html
After you stop taking prednisone, whether or not you drink alcohol will be a personal choice, (so long as it does not seem to cause problems). For many years, the celiac sites all warned about alcohol as a source of gluten, but this mistaken information was based on an incorrect assumption that the gluten in wheat that was fermented and distilled in the production of alcohol, was transmitted into the final product. That does not happen, of course, since in reality, there is no way that a protein can be transmitted by means of the distillation process. Pure alcohol is gluten-free.
As Courtney mentioned, though, beer, and certain blended products that blend the alcohol back with a malt of some form, do indeed contain gluten. Technically, they contain hordein, (not gluten), but hordein is the prolamin in barley, (the source of malt), that is the equivalent of gluten in wheat, and anyone who is gluten intolerant, will also be hordein intolerant, (and secalin intolerant, also, for that matter - secalin is the prolamin in rye, that is the equivalent of gluten in wheat).
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.