I am continuing my total diet as the only remedy against my LC. My only real symptom is abdominal pain, and unfortunately lately it has been increasing again. Since my Entero Lab test has evidenced excess of fat in the stool. and I lost quite a bit of weight in last months, I have rationalized, that I am probably suffering from enzyme insufficiency, among other things.
I have decided to give enzyme supplements a try, but today, after taking the first tablets, i have read the ingredients, and to my horror I have read that it contained lactose, mushroom derived amylase as well as malt sprout origin diastase:
" Vegetable amylase 69 mg
(Corresponding to: malt diastase 16 %, fungal amylase 5.1 %, lactose 42.9 %, saccharose 36 %).
Excipients : saccharose, raspberry flavouring, mandarin essential oil, talc, lactose.
For a 750 mg chewable tablet.
A chewable tablet contents 0.66 g sugar (saccharose, lactose)"
Now, obviously the scope of the diet is to eliminate gluten and diary in the first place, but it also happens that I am intollerant to mushrooms.
I am at this point at a loss whether I should use these tablets at all. What would be your ideas on this?
Thanks for help.
Marek
Am I going to bomb my diet with enzyme supplements?
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I just checked the enzyme I'm taking and also noticed that it contains lactose. Thanks for pointing this out.
I have another question regarding the enzymes: they are taken with each meal in order to help digest the specific meal with which they are taken. Does this apply to *every* meal one eats, or only certain types of food need the assistance of enzymes? For example, if I have a bowl of rice for breakfast, do I need to take the enzyme with it? And if I eat small meals throughout the day, say, every 3-4 hours, do I take a tablet (or perhaps half a tablet) with each meal?
Thank you.
I have another question regarding the enzymes: they are taken with each meal in order to help digest the specific meal with which they are taken. Does this apply to *every* meal one eats, or only certain types of food need the assistance of enzymes? For example, if I have a bowl of rice for breakfast, do I need to take the enzyme with it? And if I eat small meals throughout the day, say, every 3-4 hours, do I take a tablet (or perhaps half a tablet) with each meal?
Thank you.
Enzymes are food-specific, IOW, each type of food, requires different enzymes for optimum digestion. Most enzyme supplements contain a mix of enzymes, though, supposedly tailored to either general or specific needs, so theoretically, at least, most of them should be suitable for every meal of the day, (unless the user has a very unique diet).
Whether or not traces of certain "allergenic ingredients" will affect your recovery, depends on how sensitive you are to them, but most of us find that we cannot tolerate traces of the foods that we are sensitive to, in our supplements.
As to whether or not they are beneficial, I can't offer any personal insight, because the only time I tried an enzyme supplement, I took one pill before starting breakfast, and within less than an hour, I was as sick as a dog, and within another hour, I was vomiting. About every hour and a half to 2 hours, I would vomit again, (whether I had anything in my stomach or not), but by the end of the day, I finally stopped vomiting, (or trying to vomit). It took me over 3 days to get back to feeling "normal", again, so I never tried them again.
Some people report that they are helpful, though.
Tex
Whether or not traces of certain "allergenic ingredients" will affect your recovery, depends on how sensitive you are to them, but most of us find that we cannot tolerate traces of the foods that we are sensitive to, in our supplements.
As to whether or not they are beneficial, I can't offer any personal insight, because the only time I tried an enzyme supplement, I took one pill before starting breakfast, and within less than an hour, I was as sick as a dog, and within another hour, I was vomiting. About every hour and a half to 2 hours, I would vomit again, (whether I had anything in my stomach or not), but by the end of the day, I finally stopped vomiting, (or trying to vomit). It took me over 3 days to get back to feeling "normal", again, so I never tried them again.
Some people report that they are helpful, though.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.