Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Cure for Colitis Part II: Let's Hear From You!

While continuing the discussion on for healthy eating as a cure for Ulcerative Colitis, I also want to encourage anyone reading this to share their own success stories on reducing or eliminating the symptoms of colitis without medication.

Shari, who has generously shared her ideas and advice in the last post "The Cure for Colitis", and I believe there is a need for a grassroots effort on the benefits of healthy foods. I know it sometimes can take years for improvements, but we would love to hear from you.

Speaking of sharing stories, I am sure you have read about the many success stories for people following the SCD diet. My daughter, who has UC, has not tried this particular diet, but the premise of eating healthy seems to be the same. While I think this diet is rather complicated and restrictive, quite a few people have had success with it.

We believe this effort is particularly important because healthy eating was not encouraged by either of our children's doctors. We appreciate our wonderful doctors, but find there is a need for education. We have not found too many doctors that encourage healthy eating for this gut disease.

In fact, I had an unfortunate incident with a Ped GI back in 2006. It was at a camp for children suffering from IBD, and after I mentioned the "14 Super Foods" book about which I was quite excited, he responded that he was quite sure that eating healthy foods would not make a difference. To be completely honest, he was so incredibly arrogant that he increased my determination to prove him wrong!

Today I think more and more doctors are recognizing the health benefits of eating healthy rather than relying on medicines alone. But this disease is too scary to to rely on doctors alone since so little is known and understood.

So please, share with us what works for you!