The most common food triggers of IBS

Submitted by Guest on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:43.

This is a list of some of the most common food triggers for IBS:

  • alcohol
  • artificial sweeteners - sorbitol seems to be a particular offender
  • carbonated drinks
  • coffee
  • dairy
  • fried foods
  • oils
  • poultry skin and dark meat
  • red meat.

A good way to work out which one triggers your IBS is to try excluding them from your diet to see if you feel better, and then reintroduce them to see if the IBS comes back.

Sometimes you can have more than 1 trigger so watch out for this as this complicate exclusion diet tests.

If you decide to exclude dairy or meat from your diet then make sure you get enough calcium and iron and other essential nutrients from other foods in your diet.

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