Need help with nuts - very sick today

teagirl · Post by **teagirl** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:11 pm

Hi all. Today was a bit better. I managed to get through the night with no accidents and only 2 visits.

Had a banana and small amount of cereal (mesa sunrise) for breakfast.

Mid morning - sudden really bad pain lower down for a minute or 2 then that awful whoosh! only just made it to the bathroom. The worst thing is the red hot pain, the feeling that my colon is on fire. It's there as soon as the D comes, then lasts for some time afterwards, maybe 10 mins. I feel like someone stuck a red hot poker up there. This must be my poor ravaged colon complaining about stuff passing through?

Since then I have been only a few times and passed small stringy stuff. What is this? Is it bits of food or bits of me?

Again lunch of boiled fish and mashed potato and mashed carrot, and things seem quiet. Haven't had much supper but don't feel hungry anyway.

Definitely better than yesterday. The DH gets to eat the rest of the cashews!

angy · Post by **angy** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:21 pm

Mesa cornflakes is pretty rough fibre, much like most cereals. My early days of being ill I couldnt eat cereal when my gut was so inflamed, it gave me serious D.....

stringy stuff is probably mucus from your intestine...which is more than likely to be inflamed....i use aloe vera juice to heal the inflammation...its pretty good...and soothing for that red hot burning sensation...

i couldnt eat any rough fibre or veg it went right through me...bananas are good though, which is soft fibre.... although some people cant eat bananas... boiled rice is good for your gut ,,,i find it has a healing effect...

teagirl · Post by **teagirl** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:30 pm

Thanks, Angy. I've seen aloe vera juice in bottles and cans in the store so I will buy and try. I've had some camomile tea and that seems to calm the noise and churn.

angy · Post by **angy** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:39 pm

Maxine,
if you can afford it buy only (high potency) aloe vera from the health food stores ...a large bottle will last about a month at 25-40 mils a day...keep it in the fridge too...It tastes yuk...but i always swallow some apple juice with it...

May i also suggest...because this works for me....probiotic capsules...not the yoghurt drinks...but the little capsules...these also help me with a flare...i take 2 a day with food during the flare up

I stopped my asacole by myself and control my cc with gf diet, and supplements..
natural teas are great with flares too...fennel tea is good,,peppermint too..camomile is soothing

teagirl · Post by **teagirl** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:50 pm

I'll get to the health store tmrw. It's a pretty good one and surely will have the high potency stuff.

While I'm there I'll talk to the owner, he's very knowledgeable. I would need the probiotic capsules to be DF and SF as well. It might not say on the bottle.

angy · Post by **angy** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:58 pm

Im sure you will get the sf and df...the ones i buy have 5 million little critters in one capsule lol!!!pity they dont eat up that mc...lol!!!

Post by **tex** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:08 pm

Well, after a few weeks of trying various nuts, with mixed results, yesterday afternoon I ate a bunch of almonds, (enough for a good "test"), and some cashews, and in no time at all, I was enjoying a good, old-fashioned session of D, that lasted most of the night.

That's enough of that foolishness - I ain't eatin' no more nuts.

They don't dislike me 100%, but they dislike me enough that they're just not worth the hastle, so they're now officially something that I used to eat.

Tex

teagirl · Post by **teagirl** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:27 pm

Oh Tex! I am soooooo sorry they got you too! I empathise with you being up all night with D. I'm just starting to get back on my feet after the cashews.
Hope your problem is over soon.

No nuts for me either, for quite a while.

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:29 pm

post MC diganosis i have not been game enough to try nuts or coconut.....

Bifcus16 · Post by **Bifcus16** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:12 pm

Most nuts are fine for me. But last week I ate about a third of a packet of cashews and got soft serve as a result.

But I am not blaming that on MC. Cashews have always had that effect if I ate too many. Any other nut is fine. I wonder if it is the chemicals in the cashew fruit hanging around.

I watched some girls shelling cashews at a factory in Phuket once. They had all their fingers wrapped up in rags both to protect them from the sharp guilotine style openers and the chemicals in the fruit - is it alkaline(?). I never thought the rags would be much use for either job. I swore to never ever waste a cashew from then on - it took so much effort for those girls to get them out one by one. And that was probably a 'model' factory.

Lyn

Post by **tex** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:45 am

Lyn's comments made me curious, so I looked up cashews. Here's the interesting part, according to Wikipedia:

What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit (sometimes called a pseudocarp or false fruit) that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as "marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long. It is edible, and has a strong "sweet" smell and a sweet taste. The pulp of the cashew apple is very juicy, but the skin is fragile, making it unsuitable for transport.

The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the accessory fruit. The drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the cashew apple. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the nut of the cashew is a seed. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing an allergenic phenolic resin, anacardic acid, a potent skin irritant chemically related to the more well known allergenic oil urushiol which is also a toxin found in the related poison ivy. Some people are allergic to cashew nuts, but cashews are a less frequent allergen than nuts or peanuts.

No wonder this stuff irritates our guts. It appears that eating cashew nuts is a lot like eating fruit from a poison ivy vine.

Thanks Lyn, for pinpointing the problem,
Tex

angy · Post by **angy** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:00 pm

Tex
That was naughty eating them nuts...you know they kill ur gut..hope you get o er that flare soon....I'm having a really bad one at present ...major d today. I made gf sponge cake muffins and added coconut....usually they are fine with me but I used a butter this time... Omg I'm suffering bad.....sigh

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:05 pm

Angy
hope you get over the D soon.

hard to think a small amount of butter could cause so much grief....

Post by **tex** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:27 am

Angy,

I am fine - my "episode" lasted less than a day. I hope that you can get over your little "indiscretion" just as quickly.

Tex

angy · Post by **angy** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:26 pm

Thanks guys!! I'm better now took 5 days...to feel normal again...starved myself today that did it!!!only probiotic drinks all day...works every time...well near the end of the flare it does...think I'll stick to soy and df spread....bought some gf rich tea biscuits today....crunch!!! Their lovely...