Chronic colitis dietary taboos

It has been clarified that you should not touch individualized allergens that will cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Avoid irritating, high-oil, and high-osmolar foods that burden the intestines during an attack. Try to avoid highly processed foods that disrupt intestinal flora. In addition, you do not need to believe all the so-called "universal fasting lists". Whether you should avoid foods depends on your actual reaction to the food you eat.

I once met a 28-year-old programmer who suffered from chronic colitis for three years. He heard online that he could not eat eggs, drink milk, and touch soy products. For three years, he basically lived on porridge, water and boiled vegetables. He was so thin that he suffered from colitis every six months. Later, he was tested for food intolerance and found that he was only intolerant to crabs and mangoes. All other taboo foods were completely taboo. Later, he adjusted his diet and added steamed eggs and warm milk every day. His weight increased by three kilograms in half a month, and he did not suffer from enteritis for more than half a year.

If you ask more doctors, you will find that many food taboos are actually controversial, the most typical one being milk. Western medicine recommends drinking warm pure milk as long as you are not lactose intolerant and do not experience flatulence or diarrhea after drinking it. After all, high-quality protein is easy to absorb and is an important raw material for intestinal mucosal repair. ； However, most traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe that milk is cold in nature, and colitis patients with weak spleen and stomach will easily accumulate dampness and produce phlegm after drinking it, which will aggravate the problems of loose stools and flatulence. In fact, both sides are right. It all depends on your body's reaction. Don't worry about who to listen to. Drink warm pure milk once, and you can drink it if you don't feel uncomfortable within 24 hours. If you have diarrhea, switch to Shuhua milk or yogurt. If it doesn't work, drink soy milk. You can always find what suits you.

In addition to this controversial food, there are some pitfalls that most patients have stepped on, such as ice. On a summer day of 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, who wouldn’t want to eat half a piece of iced watermelon? But I have really seen too many patients who originally had stable enteritis, but they just took a cold bite and started to have stomachaches and run to the toilet half an hour after eating. This is not because the watermelon itself has a problem, but because the temperature of the ice will directly stimulate the already sensitive intestinal mucosa, causing intestinal spasm and peristalsis to accelerate. If you really want to eat it, take it out and leave it for ten minutes until the temperature reaches normal temperature. Then take one or two small bites at a time to satisfy your craving. Most people will have no problem.

The same goes for foods that are high in fat. Butter hot pot, fried chicken, and fat and oily braised pork are all really delicious, but the fat content is too high. In order to digest the fat, the intestines have to secrete more bile, and the intestinal mucosa itself has inflammation. If stimulated, it is easy to peristalsis too fast, leading to steatorrhea, and the stool will be greasy and stain the toilet. Whether it is an attack or a stable period, it is recommended to eat as little as possible. If you are really greedy, you can eat it once a month to relieve your addiction. Don't make it every once in a while.

Many people also take advantage of dietary fiber. An aunt once heard someone say that eating more dietary fiber can nourish the intestines. During the attack, she ate celery and fried enoki mushrooms every day. The result was only mild diarrhea. After two days of eating, she had mucus and bloody stools. She was so scared that she rushed to the hospital. In fact, dietary fiber is also divided into thick and thin. When the intestinal mucosa is damaged during an attack, those coarse and hard dietary fibers that are not easy to chew, such as celery stalks, leeks, corn husks, and enoki mushrooms, are like small brushes rubbing on the broken intestinal mucosa. Willn’t the more it rubs, the more serious it will be? At this time, you have to eat a low-residue diet, such as steamed soft pumpkin, peeled tomatoes, and boiled mashed potatoes. When it is stable, slowly add some soft soluble dietary fiber, such as ripe bananas and thick boiled oats, which can help regulate the flora.

There are also those highly processed snacks and pickled products, such as spicy strips, pickled bacon, candied fruits, and sugary carbonated drinks, especially those with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose. Now many studies have confirmed that these sweeteners will disrupt the balance of intestinal flora. Balance, causing more harmful bacteria and fewer beneficial bacteria. The flora of colitis patients is originally chaotic. Eating these is like giving a knife to inflammation. Eat as little as possible. If you really want to eat snacks, it is better to eat some original nuts or steamed sweet potatoes. They are much healthier than those processed foods.

In fact, chronic colitis is a very individual disease after all. You may get sick after eating something that is fine by others. You may feel better after eating something that others avoid. Instead of looking at the fasting list on the Internet and not daring to eat this or touch that, it is better to keep a small notebook to keep a food diary. What you eat and whether you feel uncomfortable after eating it. After half a month, you will know what to avoid and what not to avoid. After all, in the final analysis, eating enough nutrients and feeling comfortable are the best medicine for intestinal repair, right?