on Scd for colitis. Please help!

amother

Plum

Sun, May 07 2017, 7:15 pm

Do I need to use a medical nutritionist while on the specific carb diet for colitis or can I go about it alone? And what do you use for probiotics?
Please let me know ASAP... This is so hard!
Thanks!

amother

Brown

Sun, May 07 2017, 9:37 pm

On one of the Crohn's boards there was a woman who set up SCD buddies. It is probably worth it to pay Mrs. Weiss for her help and access.
As far as probiotics, that's where the SCD yogurt comes in. I have a concern and that is that most of the CY yogurts have additives so I heard the best yogurt is Norman's plain Greek. But it doesn't list bacteria; I hope it has enough.
Another thing about probiotics: Mrs. Weiss now promotes fermented foods. There seems to be something to it, I'm not knocking it. I do want to say that if you want to go on meds, don't let her talk you out of them. There are new meds in the pipeline that seem to work for colitis, b"H. It is possible that you might want to steer clear of certain meds, or combinations of meds (like Imuran AND a biologic). Just make informed decisions.

Good luck and refuah shleima!

P.S. About the diet making people worse. I don't know if it makes people worse but it could be they need to be on meds too. Also, the diet doesn't have as a high a success rate for colitis as it does for Crohn's.

ra_mom

Sun, May 07 2017, 9:48 pm

As far as I know only the Mehadrin and J&J plain yogurts have the correct strain needed for SCD. You can't actually eat those yogurts, but you can use them as starters to make your own yogurt as per the book Breaking the Vicious Cycle.

anonymrs

Sun, May 07 2017, 9:58 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Don't those have pectin?

anonymrs

Sun, May 07 2017, 9:59 pm

Regarding people not doing well on the diet, sometimes people are eating things that are too advanced or just plain don't agree with them. Some people can never tolerate nuts on SCD. Some people don't tolerate foods that are fermented because of the high histamine levels in fermented foods.

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Tue, May 16 2017, 3:31 am

I have Colitis, doing actually well on Imuran/imurek for the passed 12 years,
does anyone have experience with it through pregnancy? by my 3 kids I always stopped, first 2 went fine, last pregnancy a year ago, had strong flare up, so now I am reconsidering