Need help with nuts - very sick today

[grannyh]

I still can't eat nuts... even on entocort. Well in might be able to tolerate one or two.. but who can eat just one:) Probiotics didn't agree with me either.

If one is a good enough detective with labels some things that we think we can't tolerate.. can be tolerated by another company with different ingredients. Tedious work.. but often it pays off.
grannyh

[harvest_table]

Hi everyone,

Good conversation about nuts .... have a few thoughts (already mentioned) regarding lectins. Keep in mind we are all in different stages of speculation, diagnosis and varied recovery plans.

Is it the cashews themselves? or the amount? Tex, I know you have said before that you eat them but in moderation. Is it the fibre in them that does you in?

Is it likely all nuts will do me in?

It very well could be the lectins in the cashews that cause problems for some of us. I've been following a "paleoish diet" for many years and doing quite well. Nuts allowed are walnuts, brazil , macadamia and almonds.

The nuts this diet suggest you DO NOT eat are peanuts (a bean) and cashews (a family of their own) because each of these contain lectins.

Read more about Lectins
http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html

Love,

Joanna

[grannyh]

Thanks for the update/reminder on the nuts.. figure that peanuts and cashews are my favorites:) Not too crazy about walnuts but I do like almond and brazil.
grannyh

[harvest_table]

Grannyh,

Your managing your MC symptoms with medication and I'm using diet and we both still have problems with nuts.

Interesting. Could be the Lectins.

Love,
Joanna

[grannyh]

I can pretty much eat anything I want to... but some things cause problems.. not a flare.. just an uncomfortable day.

My new "normal life" isn't normal for anyone outside our community...LOL Who outside of here would be happy with a couple of diaper days a year?? LOL
grannyh

[AZGAL]

Hello,
I'm sorry to hear of your problem with cashews. I remembered that there was something poisonous about them. They're related to poison oak, mangos and pistachios. Even before being diagnosed with MC, I had to be careful not to overdo them because I'd get orange oily discharge and the big D from eating too many. Hope you get to feeling better.

[wonderwoman]

After feeling good for several months, I developed a rumbling in my gut and a change in BM's. Not D but not going regularly as I had before. After reading here, I am beginning to think it may be to the cashews I have been eating the past week. I had finished a container of mixed nuts which I thought were way too salty so I bought cashews. I am going to eliminate them from my diet and see if that does it.

[dpaschal]

I have been eating cashews as a snack, maybe 10 at a time, the past few days. They don't seem to bother me but I notice that when I poop they are not digesting. Has anyone else noticed this and is this normal and what could be causing this to happen? I have always eaten cashews and never noticed it before, but of course I never took the time to look at my poop, until I got so sick.

[tex]

Donna,

Yep, we become toilet bowl watchers, when we have this disease. LOL.

I doubt that cashews are the only food that you are not digesting properly, but due to their physical characteristics, they are relatively easy to identify, in the "bowl", so they are easily noticed. Poor digestion is a part of MC, for most of us. Your digestion will improve, as your gut heals. In the meantime, if that concerns you, an alternative is to eat nut butters, (for example, almond butter, cashew butter, etc.), available at most health food stores. That will usually insure better digestion, and thereby make the nutrients more available to your digestive system.

IOW, not to worry. What you are seeing is normal - normal for someone with MC, that is.

Tex

[Zizzle]

I don't digest nuts well, but I am really enjoying drinking almond milk and it causes no problems for me. Maybe because they are all ground up and processed? It's beome my milk subsitute and I drink it all the time. Perhaps try that next to see if the problem is nuts versus the fiber, etc.