Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Support Group

hi i listed some of my helps and avoids on the topic i added called just a few suggestions. hope these are of help to you. mailnlyits a case of cleansing your gut first(for a few weeks) then eating a balnaced diet with no sugar , salt(except sea salt) or white flour , white rice products and no fats other than oilve oil, butter, and coconut oil and drinking enough water. ifind supplements dont work well unless you have abalanced diet to go with it.

Hi...I do know that each of us has different trigger foods and no one true diet will work for all IBS suffers. Also I just learned from my doctor that some IBS suffers have some type of anxiety or stress issues. This can effect the stomach and cause pain and nausia along with diarrhea. Maybe you knew this already. But again maybe a combination of knowing ones trigger food and get a handle on stress or anxiety that may be affecting us. Hope this helps

i do know quite a bit as i am studyin diet and nutrition and that includes disorders such as ours but i was just intreested to know on a more personal level what each one of you finds aesy or cant eat etc just as a bit of research really so i acn useit for my course - i dont want names or anythign i jsut want to see if theres foods that come up regulally and stuff !!

In addition to what the others have said, I find that anything with nitrites like pickles gets me very bloated/gassy. Also, carbonated beverages and artificial sweeteners can also cause bloating for me. The worse offender I think is probably stress!

I find that I can eat one thing one day and be fine, and then the next day it sets me right off!!
But, as a rule of thumb I always avoid:
-dairy, especially cream
-spicy foods
-greasy food
-salty food
-fizzy drinks
-too much fruit/raw vegetables in one sitting
I mean, it really is trial and error, and sometimes I will think "sod it" and have a bowl of ice cream, but generally i keep to this.

on day am fine with some foood's next day am ill cant work it out
no ice cream hard fruit full fat milk strawberries pickled foods cheese
if i drink through a straw alcohol chocolates
they all make me bad and allot of other stuff i could go on for ever

I try to follow the Chinese method of diet therapy. Foods are classified as yin or yang. Generally yang foods will remove water from your stool; yin foods will allow more water to stay in your stool.
Generally an ice cold glass of lemonaide (very yin) will cause an IBS-D person to have to run to the nearest rest room within a very short period of time. A person with IBS-C would probably be sent into agony by eating a dinner with lots of spices (very yang). I also try to avoid foods that make lots of gas (beans) or carbonated drinks since they create a mechanical pressure that makes my IBS-D symptoms worse. And like many other people avoid milk and substitute rice milk which is neither yin nor yang.

I've previously posted lists of foods that "promote and encourage" bowel movements for IBS-C people.

i would be really interested to see a list of yin and yang foods !!

http://www.feng-shui-institute.org...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chine...

http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/y...