Friendliest diet/WOE for gastrointestinal issues? Help!

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  • VividVegan
    VividVegan Posts: 200 Member
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    Update: Day 1 of trial and error elimination. Today I chose to eliminate grains for the day. Didn't make much of a difference. Tomorrow, I'll eliminate wheat and see how I feel.
  • ronjsteele1
    ronjsteele1 Posts: 1,064 Member
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    Remember that you need to eliminate a food for a minimum of 3 days (and really 7). It takes 72hrs for a food protein to leave the body cells completely. So eliminating it for one day and doing something different the next day you may not notice a difference or you might confuse which foods are doing what. Grains that contain gluten are wheat, barley, oats (unless specifically run on gluten free equipment), rye, triticale, spelt, and kamut. So if you're testing gluten vs. other grains (corn, millet, quinoa, etc) there's the break down for you. It can be a tedious process to eliminate, but it can be VERY helpful in figuring out what's going on.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
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    Doing it one day is not enough. It needs to be about a week.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
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    FeedMeFish wrote: »
    Update: Day 1 of trial and error elimination. Today I chose to eliminate grains for the day. Didn't make much of a difference. Tomorrow, I'll eliminate wheat and see how I feel.

    One day often won't make a difference. Often a few days, or even weeks, is needed to see improvements in symptoms. I old give it more time. Eliminate grains for a week or more... More is better. I am a celiac and it took me a few weeks for things to really improve, and a good year until symptoms stopped improving. Give yourself more time on eliminated foods before you judge.

    The same goes for reintroduced foods. Food sensitivity reactions can start within minutes or take a few days. Keeping a food and symptom journal may help.

    All that being said, the foods that bother my stomach are grains and sugars, as well as veggies - especially raw. Lactose is another problem food for me. It varies so much between people though.

    Good luck!
  • jbourke2002
    jbourke2002 Posts: 1 Member
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    The obvious things are to log your symptoms & foods, frequency, changes, etc.. if you want a clean anti-inflammatory diet, check out pancan.org for pancreatic cancer diet.

    Although IBS, Chron's, celiac, gallstones, frequent courses of antibiotics (causing overgrowth in gut) and food allergies are frequent problems, but there can be others, like I have.... pancreatic exocrine insufficiency and non-diabetic/non-alcohol chronic pancreatitis. Several conditions underlie tumors, too. I'm waiting for cancer diagnosis as I write this.

    Don't mess around. Go to a GI specialist. Btw, if poop or diarrhea floats, it's because essential fats necessary to digestion are being lost or not produced. Severe malnutrition can occur because enzymes aren't able to work with water soluble vitamins, etc. If poop is not formed or there are multiple bowel movements a day, it's just not healthy. Get checked out.

    Please don't assume it's an allergy or uncooked veggies. Anything that persists, gets worse, or affects your life and ability to function, IS a problem best left to a GI specialist.

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