Dairy: I'm confused.
#362928 - 01/14/11 05:07 PM
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As I've seen in Heather's IBS trigger food list, Dairy products are a main thing to avoid. But I'm confused. I've had dairy products for a long time: milk, Mac and cheese, yogurt, grilled cheese, pizza... and I've rarely had a bad attack before and have had to blame it on dairy! In fact, I recently had a grilled cheese sandwich with Velveeda cheese and don't remember having a major pain after. I just need this cleared up: are foods that is in Heather's IBS Trigger Food list guaranteed to give you a pain?
Thanks for your replies. 
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Few foods on the trigger list are 'guaranteed' to give you problems. Many of the foods on the trigger list are 'likely' to give you problems. Dairy is one of the foods that is 'likely' to give you problems.
Are you assuming that a trigger occurs shortly after eating a trigger food? Are including the possibility that the symptoms might not occur until many hours or even a day or more after eating a trigger food?
Were you diagnoses with IBS by a gastroenterologist? If yes, what tests did they do? If no, who diagnosed you with IBS?
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When you eat something day after day the gut doesn't react after everytime you eat it. I ate dairy for years and was really bad with my IBS. Then when I stopped, I improved day after day. Now when I eat dairy it creates a reaction.
Since your diet has been so bad for IBS, your body is reacting to it or you wouldn't be here talking about your symptoms. However the reactions don't have to take place right after you eat something bad- every time!
This thing works both ways. You can eat something safe and right after get a reaction from something earlier in the day or the day before or non-food! So you can't judge this and that as safe or unsafe without more criteria. Yesterday I ate safe and ate the same thing for dinner as Friday night. Right after I ate dinner last night I got D. It made me confused at first until I remembered I had a very stressful morning. That threw my gut off.
Alot of people come on with the same question I had when I started: I ate something "safe" and got gas, pain, D etc after. It doesn't mean that food did it to you. It could be non-food factors or a food from earlier or your body still not settling down. IBS isn't about food allergies or eating a certain diet and then curing yourself. IBS is about the gut choosing to react badly for some reason of its own. We eat to give the gut the best chance it has to not have anything to fuss about. That is the point. "walking on egg shells" with the gut and doing your best to make it cooperate. It might choose not to though no matter what you eat. Sorry if it makes it more confusing but it is really important to understand this.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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