More Jpouch butt burn questions - Lemon juice

Still dealing with butt burn post takedown six weeks out; trying every cream imaginable and trying my best to follow everyone's advice from previous posts in the forums as to staying away from acidic foods but I do have a question on lemon juice; even though it is acidic it does help to make the pH alkaline yes? Would it then also help to tone down the acidic stool or is that more of a product of bile? I'm just getting tired of drinking plain water even though I love it and was thinking about putting lemon juice in the water to spruce it up ( I was drinking lots of Gatorade while I had my ostomy appliance but now the citric acid in that seems to make things worse).

thanks

Scott

I find that if I take psyllium husk, it makes my stool much milder on my skin. And I use wet wipes (the flushable kind) rather than toilet paper. As long as I have that combination, my skin is fine.

I can't eat anything too spicy since surgery and that's just how it is. I mean, I can, but the burn is pretty severe. I had a rough time at first - everything burned for a while, especially the first couple months after takedown. Eventually I went to my surgeon for follow up and he said I had a yeast infection in my butt area, that was making things much worse. It cleared up quickly with cream. I think you should go get checked out if it's severe, but psyllium or pepto may help. Wet wipes are good, but keeping the area moist is what caused my yeast issue, so now I am careful to keep it dry. I think you would have a better response on j-pouch.org. Very few here have experience with jpouches.

Same here with what NSSG said. I still have some butt burn occasionally. I had a little too much to drink this past weekend and I'm paying for it a little with some butt burn. Sitz baths help me if I do it right after I go and then use a hair dryer to dry my butt and put some baby powder on. My issue of skin breaking down was also due to moisture. I used baby powder for a while, then my surgeon prescribed some special powder that I think had some sort of anti fungal quality to it and just a few uses of that cleared things up. I now rarely use any creams or powder anymore, just the sitz baths.