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What happens after C.Difficile?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Oct 27, 2023 | Replies (165)Comment receiving replies
Gluten free, dairy free, no grains or complex carbs at first. No apple sauce or rice or toast or jello or any of those bland foods they tell you to eat for diarrhea. I drank a lot of bone broth and bananas and could also eat scrambled eggs. I am slowly adding new things to my diet. You can only introduce a new item every third day and keeping a food diary. If your intestines are inflamed or dysbiotic (out of balance), then you may not be able to tolerate all the foods you ate before for a while. If you are losing weight, try an elemental drink such as EleCare Jr., which is what I am doing now to put some of the weight back. You may or may not be able to tolerate Kefir at first. I take Florastor and Align as probiotics and recently started taking Vitamin D after a study from England was published which seems to support the use of vitamin D to treat inflammation in the body, including the gut.
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What threw me off at first (besides eating the wrong foods like a ton of Jello) was the expectation that the antibiotic was going to cure me. It sort of did but it also created other problems. Just like CDiff wipes good bacteria so do antibiotics, so my theory is that the antibiotics both help and contribute to the problems we are having. Our intestines are still inflamed and out of balance following antibiotic treatment so we relapse if we eat “normal” because the bad bacteria is feasting and feeding on the sugars and carbs we are eating because we are hungry and desperate to gain weight. It is a vicious cycle.