Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Hard having IBS in Australia

Can you eat oranges/sastumas/any sort of citrus fruit? I also love chocolate but I can't tolerate any lactose at all and dark chocolate contains all sorts of IBS unfriendly ingredients where I live. But I cook my rolled oats in water with cocoa powder (that has nothing added) into porridge, even a tiny bit of it will make it v chocolate-y. As cocoa powder has no sugar in it, it can be a slightly bitter, but I eat my porridge with some sort of sweet citrus fruit on top and it tastes wonderful.

I live in Britain and here we have lots of gluten free breads available. Hope that's also the case with Australia.

Since the FODMAPs were worked out in Oz, you have the advantage of being fairly sure that their advice really applies to you. Fruits and veggies contain different amounts of say fructose depending on where they are grown. Grapes are supposed to be OK, yet all the varieties I've had here in Europe bother me. Same with some other fruit and veg. I hope that you can at least trust their results better, their data is Australia-specific in the strictest sense of the word after all!

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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)

before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010

FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml

[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]

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