Diet for IBS .

When preparing your diary, it helps to have the assistance of a dietician or nutritionist. They can help eliminate harmful food items and recommend helpful foods, as well. It is also helpful to have a nutritionist by your side because you cannot follow just any diet for IBS that you come across. Food sensitivity can be different for each and every person affected with IBS.
*Be aware that due to limited research of IBS, physicians often recommend high fiber diets without explaining the difference between insoluble and soluble fiber foods, and the different effects they have on your body. Fats and insoluble fiber foods (particularly wheat bran) can aggravate IBS symptoms, but soluble fiber foods (like oatmeal) can help soothe symptoms.

The fact of the matter is that eating safely for Irritable Bowel Syndrome does not mean deprivation, never going to restaurants, bland food, or following an unhealthily limited diet. Nor does it mean eating exclusively from health food stores, or following brutal elimination diets.

It does mean learning to eat safely by realizing how different foods physically affect your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and your specific IBS symptoms. Following an IBS proper diet simply means learning how foods can aggravate or soothe the bowel

Treatments for Feline IBD :

Will involve both medications and diet changes. Food trial is usually the first treatment and it will not be easy as it can take several months to test. You will need to feed your cat both a protein and a carbohydrate food source that they have never eaten. This could include turkey burger, venison, duck, potatoes, or rice. During this testing, they can have nothing else including treats of any kind.

If this does not work effectively, a high fiber diet may be tested if the colon area is where the infection is found. If it is the small intestine that is affected, you will want to use a low fiber diet. Low fat diets and diets low in gluten have also been very successful if nothing else works. Fatty acids from fish oil have also proved to work in difficult cases.

Medications that will be used will include corticosteroids as they have both anti-inflammatory as well as immune suppressive properties. They also help to stimulate the appetite as well as enhancing sodium and water absorption which will be critical with your cat with this disease. Corticosteroids have very few side affects on cats. There may also be several types of antibiotics that can be used.

However, there are also several natural forms of treatments that you can give your cat to help with this disease. L-Glutamine is an amino acid which naturally fuels intestinal cells as well as maintaining the integrity of mucosal cells. This natural supplement also helps to stimulate and well as enhances the existing mucosal functions.

Slippery Elm is another natural supplement that provides a soothing protection for the mucus membranes of the intestinal tract. DGL, which is a licorice extract, is also extremely effective. It helps to increase the flow of blood to the intestines which helps the healing process; and as a result reduces the muscle spasms that are associated with this disease.