I am trying to eliminate foods and then slowly add them back in to see what bothers me and causes flares, I already know I'm sensitive to gluten, eggs, grains and dairy. For the last two days I've had only lean cuts of meat, water, and weak coffee, which resulted in no blood, cramping or pain. Today, around 4 pm, I had a stRbucks sugar free vanilla latte with almond milk, and then for dinner I had green beans and sauerkraut along with some pork tenderloin, and I was in the bathroom with bright red blood almost an hour later. Any guesses as to what might have brought along the change? I'm leaning towards the coffee but wasn't sure if those veggies were not good ones to have?

Fletch10 said...


So - perhaps it was the combination of the sauerkraut, espresso, sweetener, etc.?

I vote for the combo of those 3. I would have had issues with intense starbucks coffee plus sauerkraut!

Or perhaps it was just a fluke. Keep testing things and keeping a food journal!

You'd have to reintroduce those things individually and see if you have a repeat reaction, then you'd know. And sometimes UC does crap like that randomly and it cannot be reproduced. In that case I'd say coincidental.

I think it had to be the cabbage! I was up all night so sick. This morning I had some goetta and for lunch I had leftover pork and some avacado and I was much better. I had read cabbage was easy to digest-apparently not for me!!! Awful!

Almond milk also contains emulsifiers which have been found to induce inflammation