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Irritable Bowel Syndrome – What Diet To Choose? Best Recommended Foods And Foods To Avoid.

Posted on August 31, 2018September 3, 2018 by Marina Curilov

The remedies for irritable bowel syndrome are so many, though they often prove to be little effective. The only way to battle the symptoms once for all is eating the right foods. What is the right diet to choose? What foods are recommended and what foods you’d better avoid if you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome? 

What is the irritable bowel syndrome?

This troublesome disorder affects 20 per cent of the population, especially women. First of all, it is important to point out the irritable bowel syndrome is not a disease, but a disorder involving the way a part of the alimentary tract works and reacts to such factors as food and stress.

The main symptoms of irritable bowel are:

  • diarrhea
  • costiveness
  • diarrhea interspersed with periods of costiveness
  • abdominal pain
  • stomach bloating
  • and other symptoms of the alimentary tract…

These symptoms show up or get worse during stressful periods, or they get triggered by eating certain foods or by other individual factors.

 

How to choose a diet for the irritable bowel syndrome and what are the best recommended foods?

The diet to follow largely depends on the main symptoms with which this disorder shows up: whether you suffer from costiveness, diarrhea or your symptoms are caused by food intolerances.

The nutrition habits to take into account if you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome are mainly three:

1 – High-fiber diet

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This diet is fit to people whose main symptom is costiveness and is aimed at reducing abdominal pain.

Recommended foods:

  • brown bread;
  • wholegrain flour;
  • brown rice;
  • high-fiber cereals;
  • boiled potatoes with skin;
  • green vegetables like spinaches, broccoli;
  • cabbages;
  • carrots;
  • beans, peas, lentils;
  • artichokes;
  • string beans;
  • apples;
  • apricots;
  • bananas;
  • raspberry;
  • pears;
  • figs;
  • dates;
  • blackberries;
  • boiled plums;
  • gooseberry.

It is essential to drink large amounts of liquids (water and herbal teas) to help fiber work properly without getting liquids from other parts of the body.

Pay attention to bran:

This food usually proves effective on lots of people, though some people may find bran makes their symptoms even worse. If you want to know if a food is fit to your situation (bran in this case), start taking a spoonful of bran twice or thrice a day with meals, step by step increasing or decreasing the doses according to the effects it triggers on you.

2 – Low-fiber diet

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This kind of diet is fit to people whose main symptom is diarrhea.

Recommended foods:

  • white bread;
  • white flour;
  • white rice;
  • no whole-wheat pasta;
  • all kinds of meat (fish, chicken, beef);
  • milk;
  • cheese;
  • eggs;
  • yoghurt;
  • butter;
  • all vegetables except those on the list of the foods to avoid;
  • skinless fruit;
  • cooked or canned fruit;
  • fruit jam;
  • tea;
  • coffee.

Foods to avoid:

  • bran;
  • whole-grain cereals;
  • muesli and flakes;
  • whole-grain flour;
  • sweets with fruit;
  • oats;
  • brown rice;
  • brown pasta;
  • peas, beans, lentils, corn;
  • potato skins;
  • dried fruit (sultanas, plums, figs, apricots, etc…);
  • raspberries, black currant, blackberries;
  • walnuts…

3 – Exclusion diet

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If none of these two diets have worked, you are likely to have an intolerance to certain foods. In this case you may have other accompanying symptoms like: asthma, eczema, hay fever, rhinitis, urticaria, etc…

This diet rules out all those foods that may cause an intolerance and has to be followed for at least two weeks. During this period of time it is recommended to take note of the foods you eat and of the possible symptoms you have.

Recommended foods:

  • meat: veal, lamb, chicken breast, raw ham;
  • fish: boiled or grilled white fish;
  • vegetables: all fresh vegetables, salad, legumes (beans, peas, lentils), canned vegetables (tomatoes or tomato sauce);
  • fruit: apples, pears, pineapple;
  • cereals: rice and rice flour;
  • oils: sunflower and olive;
  • beverages: herbal teas (chamomile and rosehip), fresh fruit juices (apples, pears, pine apples, grapes), tomato juice, natural water.
  • black pepper;
  • honey.

Foods to avoid:

  • Meat: beef, sausages;
  • Fried fish;
  • Vegetables: potatoes, onions, sweet corn, canned vegetables with sauce;
  • Fruit: cider fruits (oranges, mandarines, lemons);
  • Cereals: wheat, breakfast cereals, oat, barn, corn, corn flour;
  • Corn oil;
  • Vinegar;
  • Cow milk, goat milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt;
  • Eggs;
  • Beverages: tea and coffee, fruit juice, canned beverages, alcohol;
  • Jam;
  • Foods containing preservatives, colorings and other food additives;
  • Yeast and yeast extract;
  • Walnuts;
  • Chocolate.

In addition to these foods it is advisable to exclude other foods you know give you disorders.

Our intestine needs healthy food to eat leisurely. Choosing the right diet to follow is very important, though it is not enough. Besides avoinding certain foods and eating the right ones, it is essential to learn how to manage stress in order to effectively battle irritable bowel syndrome symptoms.

 

Based on: “The Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Diet Book” by Rosemary Nicol

 Thank you for reading and if you find this article useful, please comment below and share it so other people can benefit from it as well.

4 thoughts on “Irritable Bowel Syndrome – What Diet To Choose? Best Recommended Foods And Foods To Avoid.”

  1. Bethany Ashlyn says:
    September 3, 2018 at 4:43 pm

    Love this! Thank you for sharing and breaking down each symptom and what foods to eat!

    Reply
    1. Alessandro Ventura says:
      September 3, 2018 at 4:47 pm

      Hi Bethany,thanks for commenting my article.Please keep following my blog

      Reply
  2. Fabiola Rodriguez says:
    September 4, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Recently, my doctor suggested I might have irritable bowel syndrome. Since then, I started eliminating certain foods from my regular diet and I feel surprisingly better. I won’t lie, this isn’t easy to do because I already have lactose intolerance apart from an irritable bowel, but what can you do. Eating enough servings of produce and avoiding junk seems to do the trick. This is a very useful list, thanks!
    I’ll be tweeting this post.

    Reply
    1. Alessandro Ventura says:
      September 5, 2018 at 4:11 pm

      Hi Fabiola,I am glad you are feeling better now and I am happy you found my article interesting. Your feedback is always valuable. Let me know about how you will be doing with your irritable bowel syndrome. Please keep following my blog

      Reply

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