"bad" food choices

Personally I can't eat any fresh fruit or veg, but I have had 3 resections. Even without the resections though the skin on grapes and some other foods are hard to digest and probably should be avoided, especially if you are flaring. It isn't going to advance the disease but it will cause already inflamed areas to act up. Its like taking sandpaper to road rash.

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Suzanne

CD 20 years officially, 30 unofficially. 3 resections '93, '95 '97
Managing with strict low residue diet, keeping symptoms to a minimum. All test show small amount of ulceration, still have occasional blockages. But still have a great time with my 2 daughters and husband!


Prednisone, 6MP,Prevacid, B12 shots, Bentyl, Xifaxan.....

What are these "fresh fruits and vege-tables" you refer to?   

I can't eat any of that myself, including onions in any form.  I love onions cooked into some foods.  This sucks.  Me personally, I have been afraid of grapes, thinking some melons might be ok, except I don't like cantaloupe or honeydew.  I eat lots of bananas.  I think it's a lot like Zanne said.

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Diagnosed (FINALLY) UC Sept 09/Diagnosis amended 5-3-10 to Crohn's
Taking Pentasa 500mg/8x/day
Entocort 3X/day
Bentyl as needed
1000 mg Vitamin C
Prilosec 1X/day
Flonase
Caltrate-D 1000mg/day

Yr just like me. I love grapes but I just can't eat them. It applies to other fruit as well, like bananas, God knows why? I can't have anything that has been anywhere near them yellow bendies. I had a nanna juice this morning. Full of goodness. No preservatives, just vitamins and minerals. The minute I gulped the last of it I started feeling pain, discomfort and nausea that lasted about the whole day.
As Sniper put it - If it taste good, spit it out, you can't have it...Grrrrr

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Living with CD for 8 years now.
Currently on Asacol 5x400mg twice daily and 40mg Prednisolone.
Supplementing Vit C/B Complex/D3/E; Alpha Lipoic Acid, Arginine, NAC
Oil of Oregano and Serrazimes ordered and hopefully in the post
Tried Pentasa. Adverse reaction to AZA
Useless GI. Unfortunately stuck with him due to geographical limitations. We live on an island...
Surgery due on Nov 3rd.

Our ailment is so subjective, it defies generalizations of all sorts. The answer to your question really depends on how you define making the disease worse, and also on your own body's response.

If you define making the disease worse as an increase in the severity of symptoms, then eating "bad" foods obviously makes it worse, otherwise they wouldn't be bad foods. If you define it as causing irreparable damage to your intestines, then it's difficult to say. If it makes you bleed, it's probably doing long term damage. If its just some D, you're probably safe with the occasional slipup/guilty pleasure.

For me, the foods I can and cannot eat change so arbitrarily (except for a few constant bad foods like caffeine and milk) that I've given up trying to appease the almighty C. If I can't eat what I want, within reason, then my treatment isn't working and needs to be changed.

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Diagnosed with Crohn's late December 2004. Currently in a clinical trial for Vedolizumab, which seems to be helping.

blend your favourite vegetables.