How to identify your trigger foods?
IBD affects the digestive system. All diet and fluid taken by mouth will travel through your digestive system. Nutrition will be absorbed at different locations during the journey providing your body with energy, protein, fats, vitamins and minerals. During a flare of disease the digestion process is affected indicated by symptom return. Due to this your nutritional absorption will not be at best and could result in problems if not managed quickly.
Adapting your diet can help reduce the digestion workload, improve symptoms and reduce the risk of nutritional problems. It is important to remember to not exclude anything unnecessarily and some changes to your diet may only be required during a flare.
Adapting your diet can help reduce the digestion workload, improve symptoms and reduce the risk of nutritional problems. It is important to remember to not exclude anything unnecessarily and some changes to your diet may only be required during a flare.
First step is to start a Food and Symptom Diary to help identify any trends between diet and your symptoms. The 'Identifying your dietary intolerances' leaflet will direct you on completing and analysing your food diary.
Once you have completed your food and symptom diary and you have identified a trigger food use the 'Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Symptom Control with Diet' leaflet.