Sometimes figuring out what you can eat is difficult when you have health issues, especially digestive ones. Here are some tips to eating for your body.
If you have health issues involving your digestive system, including but not limited to, pancreatitis, acid reflux disease, and celiac disease, it is important for you to eat the way your body needs so you don't feel pain or aggravate your illness. For some, this could mean being on the strictest of diets, which none of us like, or it could mean cutting out certain foods.
Foods That Are Not Good For Your Pancreas
It isn't always easy to decide which foods to cut from one's diet, especially if you have an undiagnosed disease. Certainly if a food causes pain after you have eaten it then you should consider cutting it from your diet for a while to assess whether that particular food is detrimental to your health. In the case of pancreatitis, spicy foods, tomato based products, coffee, carbonated beverages, alcohol, tobacco, and possible too much wheat, should be left alone or intake should be kept to a minimum.
The foods mentioned above would also be a good list of foods to avoid for acid reflux disease, celiac disease, and most digestive problems. Some may find that these foods cause no problem whatsoever for them, so it is really a hit and miss type deal. However, when trying to limit the amount of pain you are in, it is a good idea to keep a food journal to try and see which foods aggravate your system and which ones don't.This may seem like a tedious task, but it is a good way to gauge and track how your body reacts to the foods you ingest. Any time you eat something, write down what day it is, the time, what you ate, and if you reacted at all to it. Do it for about a month and it will become second nature to do this on a daily basis.
Don't Get Disheartened
Because it is so hard to diagnose most health issues, as it is a game of ruling out rather than true diagnosis, you also have to be an advocate for your body.You know your body better than anybody. Better than any doctor, nurse, acupuncturist, herbalist, etc. You know how it reacts to certain stresses and how you feel after each intake of breath and exhale. You are the only one who can help a doctor figure out what the underlying problem is, so don't be shy about information you give. Whether you go the conventional or holistic route with doctors, be open and honest about your entire medical history. Another tip, don't be afraid to tell them why you think a diagnosis may be wrong. Again, you know your body better than anyone and medicine is not a 100% art.
Keep Searching For Answers And Love Your Body
Don't ever give up on finding answers to your health problems and remember to love your body. The less stress you put it through, the better you will feel. Stress is something that makes us feel awful and can make our bodies deteriorate quicker than almost anything else. A great website for finding possible causes of your health problems, not as a diagnostic tool, but as a way to find out if you need to contact a doctor is www.webmd.com. Happy health and keep loving your body.