If fructose malabsorption makes you afraid then one of the best ways to put this fear aside is to get tested or try the low fructose diet and see how it works for you! If it doesn't help then ignore the messages about fructose just like many of us ignore posting about such foods as soy because it give us too much gas and bloating even though it is recommended by Heather.
Don't be surprised to see a further increase in the number of people with IBS reporting that reducing their free fructose load improves their IBS. Over the past couple of years more GP & GI doctors have been including a fructose breath test or suggesting their IBS patients reduce their fructose load. And you will notice that more IBS diets from reputable GI centers are encouraging a greater reduction in the consumption of foods with excess fructose and fructans (for example see this web page ).
IBS is a syndrome. Heather IBS guidelines are excellent place to start for managing IBS symptoms. It is not the complete answer and for many of us we have to supplement her great EFI diet with other management tools that we have learned work well for us. Please have the courteous to allow us to share these additional IBS management techniques without worrying about who might be afraid of our useful knowledge!
Good Luck
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Fructose, fear and knowledge
