Milk?

Yes realized this back before my jpouch my son and niece have ulcerative colitus and also have problems,we stay away from any dairy,I use lactos free milk and yogurt or there are other products such as soy.

Nope. Cow's milk is fine, and I eat tons of yogurt.

Cheers,

Mark

I'm good with any kind of dairy.

Lots of people are lactose intolerant, and this tends to increase with age and diarrhea. Some people are allergic to milk, which is a different thing altogether. The symptoms of either of these can be quite miserable. It has very little to do with a J-pouch, except that we tend to blame GI symptoms on our pouches.

Yes and no,
I cannot drink a glass of milk but can still eat yoghurt, hard cheeses and some ice creams...to a certain degree.
Soft cheeses are deadly but goat and sheep's milk cheeses are fantastic for me and my pouch.
Yes, most colonless people tend to be lactose intollerant but not all of us...I didn't do very well on diary pre-pouch either so it is no big change for me.
By the way, a lot of people can get reactions other than diarreah from milk products...all sorts of skin afflictions are attributed to milk usage too...stop the milk and the excema goes way.
Sharon

Yup, lactose intolerant since childhood. It seemed to go away once I became an adult. Now that I no longer own a colon and have a J-pouch it seems to,have returned.

Had the breath test as a kid with my UC dx and was found to be lactose intolerant.

I'm sort of "selectively" affected by lactose as an adult with a "pretty good" pouch, though. Large bowl of ice cream, large glass of milk = gas and bloating/discomfort. Cheese of almost any kind (unless really soft and large large amounts), small amounts of milk in a recipe, yogurt = pretty ok.

Sharon-
I meant the diarrhea effect the other way around. Diarrhea increases lactose intolerance. And yes, lactose intolerance can show up as diarrhea, or gassiness, or ...

Some people who have problems with processed milk can tolerate raw milk well.