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Digestive Health | Last Active: Oct 27, 2023 | Replies (165)Comment receiving replies
Replies to "@guthealth. I’m confused. I was to,d to eat carbs like potatoes, oatmeal, toast soups & those..."
Nope! Quite the opposite. Soups and broths are great but the grains, cereals, toast, jello and carbs not so good. There are quite a few posts on diets on this site, but all the traditional advice you hear, including from many well meaning doctors is wrong. I have been through all that, and for months kept relapsing after the antibiotics due to all the wrong advice I was receiving about eating “normal,” or eating applesauce, rice and toast or Jello, which is loaded with sugar. What seems to help is a Low FODMAP diet that limits fructose, complex carbs, gluten and dairy, and very slowly introduces these foods back into the diet. Well worth for you to do a little reading and even get a referral to a nutritionist if you can. That’s what turned things around for me after repeated rounds of diarrhea and dropping 20 pounds in three months. You may be able to eat little at first. For a while, my only safe foods were chicken or bone broth, bananas and scrambled eggs. I am now eating lactose free cheese, almond milk, most meats, rice crackers, grapes, cantaloupe, pineapple, lentils, garbanzo beans, etc. I am working with a nutritionist and slowly trying new items and recording my reaction to them. I am far from normal but this is my new “normal”, and I have now been diarrhea free for a month and gained seven of the 20 lbs I lost. I am happy to eat a restricted diet for a while to regain my health. Proper eating after these intestinal disasters is key. Our guts can heal but this is a process that is going to take many months. Took me a while and a lot of reading to figure this out. Hope this information helps you.