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Foods
To Eat FOR DIVERTICULITIS
There is a lot of confusing information about what foods you should eat
with Diverticulitis.
There is also just as much conjecture on the type of food you should
avoid,.
This page is about the foods to consume with Diverticulitis and
Diverticulosis.
Recently we did a survey for the End
Diverticulitis Reference. In this
survey we asked people to rate foods on how much of a problem they
caused. Specifically when they were feeling OK,
that is
they have Diverticulosis (as opposed to Diverticulitis) If you wish to
get clarification on the differences please click here.
Basically Diverticulosis is where you have the pouches, and
Diverticulitis is where the pouches are inflamed (usually you are in
pain).
So these are the foods that most people said they had no trouble with
causing them a flare up of Diverticulitis.
If your not in pain, and are not on any medication for Diverticulitis
(ie antibiotics), then have a serious look at these foods and
food groups.
The thing to also remember is that when you are not in pain (no flare
up). Your diet should be high in fiber.
While these
foods are not necessarily high in fiber, they are rated as low risk by
our survey respondents for causing a flare up. I would look
to include these in you
diet
as a base to work from, we discuss lots more in the complete End Diverticulitis reference.
Just remember that even though most
people said they were fine, you will need to make sure yourself.
So don't over indulge on any one of these to start with.
Using these foods as a base to work from will allow you to
make
up a diet that is high in variety, and adding lots of the high fiber
food groups will make the diet high in fiber as well.
This is a bit of an odd list, the survey was by no means
complete
covering every type of food. What we tried to do was cover a
lot
of good common foods, and a wide variety of foods. These will
give you a good idea of the types of foods to start with.
1. Chicken
2. Skinless Potatoes
3. Carrots
4. Fish
5. Banana's
6. Skinless apples
7. Peaches
8. Tea, iced or hot
9. Salty foods
10. Eggs
11. Macaroni
12. Sweet Potato
13. Yogurt
14. Mushrooms
15. Beans, string-green
16. White rice
17. Peas
18. Brown Rice
19. Sour Cream
20. Basil
You will notice that a lot of these are quite low in fiber,
and
the meats have no fiber (they do have a lot of other valuable vitamins
and minerals, so you don't have to exclude them all together if you
don't want).
There are however a few comments I would like to make.
If you can leave the skin on the apples and potatoes you increase the
fiber substantially. So maybe try skinless and then gradually
add
the skin in. If you feel problems coming on then play it safe
and
leave them out.
As you can see, the foods are all quite basic and common.
Things
like peaches are there, so consider apricots, and
other stone fruit. If you are unsure leave the skin off the
first
time, and then try with the skin on. It is an easy way to
reduce
some of the potential risk in trying a new food. However
where
possible try and eat the skin, as the skin contains most of the fiber.
Also Basil rated a mention as no problems, so I would also be
inclined to try other herbs (that's herbs not spices) to help
add flavor. Initially avoid the seeds of herbs and
spices, it may not be a problem for you but we are
trying
to get a list of the foods that you have no problems at all with.
Gradually add some of the seeds back into your diet from
herbs if
you like and see how they react with your Diverticuli. If you
feel the onset of Diverticulitis, then back off them again and leave
them alone.
One Really great tip is to keep a food diary, it is a pain to
start with, but in the long term a food diary gives you a
much better
understanding
of YOUR problem foods. Click
here for the food diary pages.
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