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Posted 7/7/2011 8:10 AM (GMT -5)
I avoid dairy products - milk, cheese, etc. I wonder how many of you can (not) take yogurt. I am not an 'instant' responder to any food except hot pepper, etc.
Posted 7/7/2011 8:29 AM (GMT -5)
Yogurt works great for me. I love it as a source of protein and calcium. There is little to no lactose in yogurt, and I choose brands with low sugars and they are yummy (Oikos is my current fave).
Posted 7/7/2011 9:02 AM (GMT -5)
When I am flaring, I can't do dairy BUT I have never had an issue with yogurt.
Posted 7/7/2011 9:10 AM (GMT -5)
i cannot handle store bought yogurt. I bought a yogurt maker and cook the lactose out of the yogurt I make. It's delicious and OK w/ my UC.
This brand is specifically for folks with UC/Crohns: http://www.lyo-san.ca/english/yogourmet.html
Any yogurt maker will do, but the trick is to double the 'cooking" time so all the lactose is gone.
Be well!
Posted 7/7/2011 9:31 AM (GMT -5)
I make and eat most of a gallon of VSL#3 yogurt a week. Mostly on cereal. 24 hour fermentation. I can eat/drink any kind of dairy
Posted 7/7/2011 9:53 AM (GMT -5)
I cannot handle yogurt (or any dairy) due to the lactose and the casein.
Posted 7/7/2011 10:04 AM (GMT -5)
I am in a (semi) remission, i.e., no D, no blood, no mucus. I want to try yogurt. Am I taking a big risk?
Posted 7/7/2011 10:07 AM (GMT -5)
For a while I thought I was having an issue with dairy.... then I thought it was just cheese... turns out none of the above. I have milk (on my cereal) and yogurt daily, and cheese a couple times a week with no problems at all.
Posted 7/7/2011 11:12 AM (GMT -5)
I am lactose intolerant so I don't eat any dairy. It always gives me indigestion and a ton of mucous production.
Posted 7/7/2011 11:18 AM (GMT -5)

Againstodds said...
I avoid dairy products - milk, cheese, etc. I wonder how many of you can (not) take yogurt. I am not an 'instant' responder to any food except hot pepper, etc.

I, like AZY, consume "gallons" of yogurt daily with my VSL#3DS. I've done that for years without any negative effects. I'm also almost an 'instant' responder, it takes usually two days for the negative effects to show up, sans taking poison or alike stuff.

I'd love to be able to make my own yogurt, so thanks for the link beatUC.

As to the other dairy products, I've cut milk to the minimum, but love cheese - I'd not live without cheese. I seem to have more issues with real old cheese. I love Norwegian goat cheese and my wife's homemade cheese.
Posted 7/7/2011 11:42 AM (GMT -5)
I am in a (semi) remission, i.e., no D, no blood, no mucus. I want to try yogurt. Am I taking a big risk?

No, I don't think you are at risk. You'll be able to tell in 1-2 days whether your have more loose BM's and or/D. Buy the purest yogurt you can without lots of fillers or thickeners so you can tell that it's truly the yogurt and not something else if you have problems.

As for me I cannot have yogurt :-(. Over the last 1.5 years I've added it back into my diet twice and ultimately it causes downhill progress so out it goes until I am soooo cured I can eat anything. Too bad because it was so easy to make and I dripped the whey out for thicker "Greek" yogurt that was like sour cream almost. Dee-licious.

I remember before UC that I tended to C in my bathroom habits and I could always count on yogurt or ice cream to unblock things. Now dairy of any sort is no go. "Wet" dairy causes D and aged dairy like cheddar causes D, buh-bye dairy.

However when I feel the irresistible call of ice cream I eat it knowing that the next morning will be multiple loose BM's but don't lose my remission unless I continue eating dairy every day.
Posted 7/7/2011 11:52 AM (GMT -5)
yogurt gives me painful gas about 6 hours after eating it. I choose to not have it, although I go through phases where I like to eat it.

I've never tried home made, however....i'm not that hung up on having to have it, for I take probiotics via capsules nightly.

It wouldn't matter i I am flaring or not as to when I'd consume it..it depends on if I'm craving it and it's here. I wouldn't go out of my way to purchase it, however.

q
Posted 7/7/2011 2:27 PM (GMT -5)
This seemed a helpful guide to why some yogurts may trouble us more than others (as well as some dairy products):

http://www.natmedtalk.com/nutrition/4933-lactose-higher-fat-content-lower-lactose.html
Posted 7/7/2011 3:59 PM (GMT -5)
I absolutely love good quality yogurt- especially the homemade SCD yogurt from half and half that I used to make, and the whole milk (higher fat) greek FAGE yogurt- and I used to tolerate them but no longer- sadly they cause me to start to flare now. I tolerate butter just fine- and am trying to explore whether some desensitisation protocol auch as NAET can let me enjoy this fabulously nutritious, and probiotic-filled food again.
Posted 7/7/2011 6:49 PM (GMT -5)
It's fructose that I can't digest. My doctor said that all the 'ose sugars are made up of the same 6? molecules, only the molecules are arranged differently. Apparently, enzymes fit each type of sugar like keys. Different enzymes have different shapes. So different ones are needed to digest different 'ose sugars. If your body is missing or lacking a certain type of enzyme, then your body will have trouble or not be able to digest its matching 'ose sugar.
Posted 7/7/2011 9:14 PM (GMT -5)
I occasionally eat non-fat or low-fat yogurt containing s.thermophilus, l. bulgaricus, l.acidophilus, & bifidus or get a drinkable lowfat yogurt that has l.rhamnosus & bifidobacterium lactis, also. My gut likes all of them in moderation. / Old Hat (30 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)
Posted 7/7/2011 9:17 PM (GMT -5)
I LOVE YOGURT but when I'm flaring I can't handle anything, yogurt included.
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