Just thought that I would share my experience over the last month. Preparing for a beach vacation, I chose to cut out all dessert type foods (cookies, ice cream, cake, etc.) to lose a couple pounds. Typically, I need to rotate my antibiotics every 2-3 weeks to keep my pouchitis under control. For the past 5 weeks, I've only been taking Pepto Bismol once a day and one Immodium right before bed and only having ~4-6 BMs a day with no urgency. Not that it's a surprise to anyone that cutting out the sugar helps decrease the bad bacteria since there is less to thrive on, but I had been hesitant to make a diet change since my meds were working. So I'm sure without the PB, which is essentially my antibiotic right now, I would be in trouble, but being able to be off the hard core antibiotics for so many weeks in a row is so nice!
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