Ulcerative Colitis Information

The correct ulcerative colitis diet can be the difference between living your life or simply existing with the often excruciatingly painful disease. You can decide if you want to be proactive and make sure you cut down or even eliminate your symptoms or if you are willing to put up with taking pills for the rest of your life, with never knowing when your next attack will be and with the fear that one day you will have grown immune of your pills and surgery is the only option. Surgery means removing your large intestine and all of the complications which come with that.

To most people the idea of using an ulcerative colitis diet simple means eating the right foods and avoiding the wrong ones but it actually is not as simple as that. In my experience it is actually a combination of 3 factors which serve to totally eliminate your symptoms.

1. Obviously it is important to avoid certain foods which make your colitis flare up. However, a lot of doctors rather inconsiderately give a much too broad answer when asked what to avoid. You will find that if you were to attempt to avoid everything they told you it is extremely difficult to find a meal that isn't boring and bland.

2. There are essentially 3 types of food. Depending on the types of digestive enzymes you need to break them down is what separates the 3 types of food. Basically food is broken down either with alkaline digestive enzymes, powerful stomach acids or simply pass through your digestive system without needing much digestion at all. The important thing is to avoid eating a combination of foods where on requires alkaline digestive enzymes and the other requires stomach acids. What happens is that they neutralise each other and the food doesn't get properly digested. This is what causes most types of digestion problems.

3. Eating the correct way is extremely important. Take note the next time you eat. Do you take the time to chew your food? Do you wolf your food down? Do you keep eating even after you feel full? The way we eat can have a massive effect on our digestive system. Sometimes if we eat too fast we take in as much air as food and this can lead to bloating and other problems.