Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: what to eat when you can't eat anything

Break the cycle "stick to foods like plain white rice, plain instant oatmeal, cream of rice cereal, dry corn or oat or rice cereals, pasta, white breads or toast, peeled potatoes, etc."

And then "After a few days, you should be feeling much better, and your gut will have stabilized. Start carefully expanding your diet - the recipes for zucchini, banana, pumpkin breads work well here, and so does the jok rice porridge soup. Begin to incorporate insoluble fiber foods - carefully! - by blending fresh fruit with soy or rice milk into smoothies, and blending cooked veggies into soups or pasta sauces. Have the smoothie with rice cereal or oatmeal, and the soup with rice or polenta. Try a bit of grilled fish or skinless chicken breast with your pasta/rice. Safe treats are the recipes for vanilla or chocolate puddings, peppermint fudge cake, banana cream pie. Keep your fat content very low and be extra careful with insoluble fiber. As you stay stable, you can expand to all the other IBS recipes, and just follow the general guidelines (still low fat, no triggers, careful with insoluble fiber) but you'll be back to a healthy diet overall and not just plain soluble fiber. "

If the jams contain high fructose corn syrup or they contain seeds and pulp the it best to avoid them until you are stable. Perhaps homemade jelly or a jelly containing only sugar should be safe. Vegan butter contains fat so exercise caution particularly when doing break the cycle.

Amino acids are not foods but food constituents. Amino acids are not known to exacerbate IBS symptoms. Most of them are digested quite easily.

It would be helpful if you list the foods and snacks you have eaten in the past 2-3 days.

Unfortunately, there isn't a reliable blood test for gluten sensitivity. Even the blood test for celiac disease needs to be confirmed with a endoscopy because it too is not 100% reliable either.

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