Dear all, what do you eat when you have a flare up?
I have discovered that my pouch swels up from within when I have a flare up making it hard to pass almost anything. And it feels like I have to go all the time, so I stay near a toilet 24seven. It is extra painfull because I get small rifts/wounds at the same time. What do you do?
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Hello, Lovelife.
When I have pouchitis, I drink bone broth (I make it myself but you can buy bone broth, or just a clear canned veg broth). I add some pieces of chicken or beef to give it some substance. Also add cooked white rice. Add some chopped up broccoli or well cooked carrots. You can cook all this in the broth, just use more broth because it will cook down. Keep it to soft foods and fluids, but all nutritious so that the little bit of food you are able to tolerate is packed with protein, vitamins, minerals, and so your pouch doesn't have to work so hard passing food. I also eat fish when feeling unwell because it's soft protein. Scrambled eggs or tofu, yoghurt with sliced banana, or peanut butter and banana on toast. Or put your favourite foods into a blender with broth and purée it to make a warm soup with yoghurt on top.
Have you tried a sitz basin to help heal the fissures? It will bring blood flow to the internal cuts to heal them. They come from straying too hard. I hope some of these help you.
bland food is what I make for my husband when he gets this way.
Winterberry posted:Hello, Lovelife.
When I have pouchitis, I drink bone broth (I make it myself but you can buy bone broth, or just a clear canned veg broth). I add some pieces of chicken or beef to give it some substance. Also add cooked white rice. Add some chopped up broccoli or well cooked carrots. You can cook all this in the broth, just use more broth because it will cook down. Keep it to soft foods and fluids, but all nutritious so that the little bit of food you are able to tolerate is packed with protein, vitamins, minerals, and so your pouch doesn't have to work so hard passing food. I also eat fish when feeling unwell because it's soft protein. Scrambled eggs or tofu, yoghurt with sliced banana, or peanut butter and banana on toast. Or put your favourite foods into a blender with broth and purée it to make a warm soup with yoghurt on top.
Have you tried a sitz basin to help heal the fissures? It will bring blood flow to the internal cuts to heal them. They come from straying too hard. I hope some of
Thank you. How do you make a sits basin?
Thank you. How do you make a sits basin?
Hi, Lovelife. You can't make one yourself, but they are found on Amazon or at drugstores for approx. $15 plus delivery unless you buy other items to reach the Amazon minimum purchase. It is a basin, shaped like a toilet seat, is sturdy plastic, and it fits exactly over a toilet (seat up). It has a small opening at the back so that when you place it on the toilet, fill it with very warm water and sit down gently, the overflow water will drain a tiny bit through the opening so you don't flood the floor. When the water cools, just refill. It is very soothing and healing for fissures. Google "sitz basin" so you can see images,mom go to Amazon and search for sitz basin and you'll see. It saved me after I had my reversal and was in pain.
Broths are helpful when I get a flare up and Yes sitz baths really help! To help control gas (which I get very badly with pouchitis or a flare) I take activated charcoal sometimes. For fissures, I also got a nitroglycerin ointment prescription. They have to compound it for you and you use it very very sparingly. It's really helped when mine are very bad. I also never wipe - mostly pat and I use balneol with every BM. Hang in there.
