Hi Heather (and everyone else)!
I've read your book "first year IBS" and have received your news letters for the past 8 months
and I have a problem with soy products. I am lactose intolerant and have IBS. When I drank soy milk
I ended up going to the bathroom consantly with diarhea. My GI believed this is due to the fact that soy ferments. I have noticed a similiar problem with other fermenting foods such as grapes, vingear and products that contain vinegar. I've had the same problems with other soy products, when I lived abroad, they use soy as an
additive to any type of bread. And eating the bread (whether it was fresh or not) gave me moderate problems.
Is it safe to eat soy in small doses? Since you seem to push soy so much in all of your writings. It is also difficult to find rice products aren't as readily available, oversees they haven't even heard of them. Although I'm back in the States now, I still run into problems, I cannot get anything at Starbucks b/c they use either regular milk or soy milk. Soy in large quantities (the milk), and even in the bread (I think this is something they don't do in the US but I'm not sure, since I'm in college and am on a meal plan) give me problems. And when I eat small doses (ie: Chinese food, some breads), it's hard to tell what exactly is causing the problems. I cannot always be sure if I am avoiding soy or if it is one of the other IBS triggers such as not having enough insoluble fiber before eating vegetables. What do you think? How best can I deal with my soy problem? Are foods that ferment bad for the IBS diet? Is soy safe in small doses for me?
Thanks!
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