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What diet do you recommend for patients with inflammatory bowel disease?

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Gastroenterology · Harvard Medical School
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This is a good question and very commonly comes up. The first step is really understanding what the expectations and goals are. If the goal is to achieve remission in people with inflammation who are symptomatic and want to use diet as monotherapy or in conjunction with meds, I discuss various thera...

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Gastroenterology · Mayo Clinic
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Mediterranean Diet.

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Gastroenterology · St. Lucie Gastrointestinal Diseases, P.L.
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Personally, I do not think there is any food restriction for IBD patients. Equally important, there had not been any concrete data or literature to support a specific diet for these patients. My only advice to these patients is that they may be at risk for malabsorption of certain foods, such as dai...

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Gastroenterology · Elliot Hospital
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Whenever someone with IBD asks about diet, it is very often less of a question of "how can I be more healthy?", but more a question relating to looking for the specific food to blame for the misfortune of being diagnosed with IBD.

As far as we know, there is no specific food that "causes" IBD (ultr...

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I find a good portion of my IBD patients have classic IBS symptoms that we can not always tease out from their symptoms especially with small bowel CD without frequent calpro testing. I will have them do a low fodmap diet that is strict only for a few weeks before adding in foods one sugar category ...

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