Comments on: IBS Low Starch Diet

By: john

john — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:29:06 +0000

The cure for everyone on here–> just take anti-diarrhea medicine before meals. I have awful IBS/diarrhea and the anti-Ds allow me to function normally. Problem solved. Only trouble is your body builds up immunity to them so you’ll have to cycle the pills on and off.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:37:53 +0000

I have had IBS for over 26 years, and started this no starch diet just over a week ago. All my symptoms are basically gone with the acception of the diarrhea. Even if that does not improve I will keep up with this diet Because I feel better then I felt when I was 20 years old. 1 small tip I was told is a few glasses of Cabernet wine helps to kick start the healing process. I noticed it got worse the night I drank the wine but it got some what better the next day.

By: yvonne

yvonne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:03:27 +0000

I have not yet started the diet but feel much better in the morning if I have fruit salad (non starchy) and almonds with a cup of white tea.If you soak almonds overnight in water they lose a great deal of their starch and they are easier to digest. Rinse it off in the morning before you eat them.

By: Juanma

Juanma — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:33:37 +0000

I just been diagnosed AS, and I did wait a minute to start the non-starch diet. today its the 3er day and I feel better of my back, but my knees still are inflamated. i hope that in a couple of day more i could feel completly healtly.
I am 29 years all i an expect to continue playing football.

By: fancymom

fancymom — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:43:28 +0000

I was diagnosed with IBS about 8 years ago and have found that a GLUTEN FREE DIET works beautifully for my gas, bloating and constipation!!

By: martin

martin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:51:57 +0000

I have just recently got info about this low starch diet. This is my first day to start it! I am excited to see the future difference, but for me to lose more wieght would be tragic. I am 6.2 feet and weight only 11 stones or 154 lbs!
is there any way to gain that just eating proper (low starch food)?
thanks

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:34:53 +0000

I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and was wondering if anybody has any information as to whether or not a starch free diet would be beneficial in relieving the pain and inflammation caused by this disease.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:03:28 +0000

There seems to be a major mistake in the info in the article–the author says that IBS has been linked to ankylosing spondylitis. What I understood was that it was IBD–specifically Crohn’s disease, but perhaps also ulcerative colitis–that was linked to it. IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) is not at all the same thing as IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)–symptoms of IBD are rectal bleeding, ulcerative sores in the digestive tract (anywhere from mouth to anus for Crohn’s) and can be bad enough to be life-threatening. Treatment can get as extreme as surgical removal of all or part of the colon/ intestines. This theoretically works for ulcerative colitis, but only works temporarily for Crohn’s, yet people opt for it anyway.

Quote from a site on ankylosing spondylitis (by an M.D.):

“All people with ankylosing spondylitis have changes in their intestines that look like a disease called Crohn’s disease in which they develop bloody ulcers in their intestines and sometimes terrible cramping and diarrhea.”

I have been diagnosed w colitis, but now have symptoms along the whole digestive tract, which indicates Crohn’s, and have just started trying the no-starch diet. I also understood that lactose (milk sugar) and other sugars were to be avoided, according to the original “Specific Carbohydrate Diet” that recommended removal of starches for treating this and other diseases. I’ve been “low-carb” for years now, but this is NO starch, not low, and I hardly know what I can eat. I read that nutmeg is starchy! Is a sprinkle of it in my eggnog too much for this no-starch diet? What about tofu? I’ve been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for a long time, would really prefer not to have to start eating meat. I used to eat tofu regularly, now hear that it contains starch–I always understood it was very low-carb. Actually just heard about it having starch after finishing a big bowl of tofu-vegetable stir-fry…