Does anyone advise not to eat bananas with rheumatoid arthritis please?
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I eats lots of Bananas, no problems
I have banana every day no problem 👍
I try to eat them on occasion but I have severe reflux so heartburn. They are an important source of potassium.
Raw bananas are acidic, ripe closer to alkaline. I eat half a banana a day mixed with other fruits. If eaten alone doesn't feel good, especially on empty stomach. Banana is a good source of potassium, which is good since often deficiency in RA.
I eat them about 4/5 times a week and have just made banana amd bluberry loaf...yum and not sweet.
I eat them no problems🤷♀️
I make curried green banana with skin on. Also make banana skin tea.
Not advisable to eat the skins if you're a migraine sufferer or on MAO inhibitors as high in tryptophan. I love banana, though I'm a migraine sufferer so don't eat the skins...just adds good flavour.
Hi there, I ate sooo many bananas when I first got diagnosed. Read something about high potassium being good for RA. I think I was desperate to be honest. I have sickened myself because I can't touch them at the moment. I don't think bananas have much influence on RA.
Never heard of this before and cannot see why they should pose a problem . I eat loads of bananas. an Important food for my cycling! A tasty food, packed wih energy for fuel and coming in its own wrapper. They even come in the right size to fit in the pocket of a cycling jersey! Perfect!
Someone said they’re acidic
Acidic? My reaction to be honest is so what? Not as acidic as apples, oranges, plums, peaches etc., etc.
Why should that be a problem?
Why would that be a problem?
Not as acidic as the hydrochloric acid which is already in your stomach and necessary to digest food!!
I’m allergic to the evil little yellow horns of evilness! I was fine up to the age of 5! But out of the blue I suddenly had a massive allergic reaction to one. I was born with Spina Bifida and from birth to the age of 5 I had 18 operations and apparently my allergic reaction was bought on by the natural latex which are in bananas! Even more surprisingly there apparently is a link between Spina Bifida and latex allergies, due to the over exposure of latex durning operations and medical procedures your body starts to react differently hence the sudden allergic reaction! If you google Spina Bifida and latex allergies it’s rather interesting!! There are lots of other foods which contain natural latex too! As for the RA side of it I can’t comment as I don’t eat them but my rheumy has never mentioned it to me before.
I have half a banana in my porridge each morning and really enjoy it. No problems.
I eat them no problem
I can't eat them they give me belly ache, but I love them, before ra I use to risk the stomach ache because I loved them but now I think twice in eating foods I know that will give me belly ache
I used to eat a dozen or so every week, but had to stop because they were beginning to drive me bananas...well I thought it was funny! 
No I eat banana everyday and personally don't find any food groups make my pain worse or less.
I did food sensitivity blood work and banana was high on the avoid list...(did it twice, over a year apart, with different companies, banana came up as avoid on both). I don't know how accurate these tests are though. So I stopped eating just in case. Trying to lower my inflammation. But I used to eat them all the time prior to RA.
Honestly, were all so individual, how the hell can we ever know? Plus, if one were to eat a banana, feel RA pain later, how can we be sure it's the banana, like 100% sure? It's very difficult, especially when this disease can act up on its own, without triggers 😡
Food sensitivity tests are notoriously unreliable for food insensitivities. The constituent may not even get into your bloodstream if they cause a reaction in the intestine. True food allergies can only be tested with a strict dietary trial and not by blood tests. I hope that answers your comment about reliability.
A dietary trial is properly-called an exclusion-diet where you are limited to foods that are easy to digest and have not been part of your previous diet. If the symptoms do clear then conclusive proof is only achieved by re-introducing the suspect food after several weeks usually, banana in this discussion and seeing if the symptoms recur. This final dietary challenge after the exclusion diet should bot be missed out though it might not be very popular with the patient if the symptoms had cleared up!
A final general comment: One cannot have an allergic reaction, a true hyper sensitivity to something new, I has to be something the body has encountered before. That earlier encounter primes the body's immune system to be prepared the next time. The sensitivity is the further times when the body is already geared-up to over-react to something that should be harmless, eg pollen in hay-fever, gluten in true gluten allergy and so on.
Thanks for the response. Yes, an elimination diet is best, but really hard for me to do.
Plus, I have a hard time reading my body unless it's super obvious, like I know that meat n dairy instantly give me pain.
I eat half a banana. They have potassium.
I too eat them without any problem. A balanced diet is a healthy one!!! 🍌
This is a strange one for me but I’ve developed a total dislike for bananas. Maybe my body is trying to tell me something. I always ate them for potassium but I’ve even gagged trying to eat them now. Other foods including potatoes, sweet potatoes and yogurt are good for potassium as well as many others and these do not bother me.
you can get potassium from lots of other foods, like Watermelon, if your stomach is bad with them, as for me ,it would be stupid of me to keep eating something that's no good for me,so I don't
I have heard this before that bananas aren’t good for inflammation, personally it has never made any difference to me. I have tried not eating then for a couple of months but it made no difference at all. So now eat them when I want. Everyone is different though so if you aren’t sure try not eating them to see if it makes any difference to you.
I've just cooked banana and pineapple in butter and honey. The butter and honey turns to syrup. Delicious covered in kefir.
Really cheered me up!
Some foods cause me problems. Thankfully not the good old nana!
Onions, garlic, some nuts and dried fruit give me the heebie geebies. And bread. Mostly gut issues though and not the joints.
I eat bananas most days. I overheard my hip surgeon asking a nurse to get him two bananas and a sandwich for lunch - must be good for us!
Interesting that you would ask. I didn't think much of it until last week. My MTX makes me sick for upto 72 hours usually making me limited to gingerale, oatmeal, and water, as the only things that make my belly feel any better. However, last week we had bananas in the house and I found myself craving them. I had a couple the afternoon that I took my medication and discovered that they seemed to help with the bad belly. Being really sick only lasted about 6 hours. To me that's a dramatic difference in quality of life. I'm going to try it again this week.
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