alcohol & pouchitis?

That's is unusual. First I've heard of it. You should listen to your body though. Too much alcohol gives me the runs but never pouchitis.

Thanks, Buckey.  Figures that I would be an outlier on this one.  

I get worsening of my symptoms of cuffitis and sometimes pouchitis symptIns but they usually only last 5-6 days at most. I've found certain alcohols are worse; such as, IPAs or dark liquors, or liquor in general. If you have to drink, maybe try red wine or light domestic beer. 

Absolutely triggers a flare up for me. Every.  Time. I can't touch alcohol with a ten foot pole....

Wow...thank you, Haidalyn.  I wonder why that is and if it has anything to do with the fact that it sits in the pouch versus making a quick pass through it if we still had our colons.  I just had a class in grad school in which we learned that only 20% of alcohol is absorbed in the stomach, and the other 80% is absorbed in the small intestine, so there's quite a bit available for our poor pouches to be exposed to.  I definitely won't be hitting the alcohol ever again.  This makes me very sad.......

There's unlikely to be much alcohol left by the time it gets to the pouch. It will have been absorbed in the many feet of small intestine before the pouch. OTOH, alcoholic drinks have all kinds of complicated ingredients, which (for some of us) might get to the pouch and trigger a response, or might cause a systemic reaction.