Is anyone able to help? I had food poisoning back on 22 November and am still not good. I have awful nausea tonight even though I am taking Probiotics every day, I've also had some Kombucha Tea. I thought both of these were working until I started to feeling poorly again today.
I know someone on here said that having food poisoning changed their IBS 180 degrees, I've a feeling this is what's happened to me.
Has anyone tried the Candida diet and if so did it work? Also, has anyone had the Candida test?
I've had enough and this is really getting me down.
Hey there, I’m so sorry you’re feeling so terrible. That’s a really long time to be affected by food poisoning. Did you have IBS before? Have you altered your diet since the food poisoning? My sister had a bad post food poisoning IBS and she basically had to go vegan for a while and has slowly reintroduced different foods. Xx
Thank you weegmack for responding. Yes I've had IBS since 1996 but I've been able to deal with it as I had IBS C, I had no issues with that.
My biggest problem now is that I'm getting nausea a fair bit which I haveNow and find it debilitating. I've had a goid spell of about 1 1/2 weeks and now I'm back to square 1.
Funnily enough I am Vegan and went Vegan for my heath and was doing really well, until this episode.
Hello, I recommend this to everyone with IBS-D symptoms, because after 27 years of suffering this is now what is working for me, and for the first time I feel that I am in control. It is based on some excellent publications, and just observing how healthy people live. First, go to the doctors and get yourself checked for intestinal infections, and whatever other tests they want to do. If you are all clear then the first thing to sort out is your vitamins and the timing of your eating. An incident of food poisoning or infection can start you on a cycle that you need to make a concerted effort to break out of. IBS causes vitamin deficiencies which are very difficult to overcome in most people’s diets, because you are probably now eating selectively. Your vitamin levels affect the health of your guts, and the health of your guts affects your vitamin absorption, so it is a vicious circle that you have to break. Get some really good, expensive, multi-vitamins (ideally constituted for your age) and take them without fail every day before your breakfast. Do not get the ones with calcium and magnesium initially as certainly in large doses these minerals can mess you up, and you should get enough from your diet. If you are on low FODMAPs, go for lactose free dairy products. At the same time, sort out your eating and fasting periods straight away. Your small intestine should be practically sterile, and your stomach acid along with bowel cleaning during fasting will usually do this. You need to fast for this to be effective, and by that I mean, absolutely no eating in between, only water, or tea with saccharin. Imagine that you never washed your dinner plates and just kept putting food on them all the time!, you need to give your guts plenty of time free of food for cleaning. Eat a good breakfast at say 7am or what suits you and then a good lunch at 12 o'clock - absolutely no food in between. After lunch, no food again for at least 5 hours, and eat well again for your evening meal because it has got to get you through the night. After that, no supper or late night snacks, no food or milk at all until breakfast the next day. In general, do not eat fried or roasted starches, i.e. crisps, chips or fried bread. Fried and roasted starches, the high temperature produced lovely crispy bits, are complex polymers that are very bad for you and are very difficult to digest, they feed the bacteria and make you ill. Starches should be boiled, and this is enough. You will feel hunger in the fasting periods, but do not respond to it - only with water and drinks - not fizzy drinks or milk. Importantly, when you are feeling better, do not resort to your old ways, you are still recovering. Start doing some exercise if you don’t already, this will also help with your gut motility. Your intestines take time to fully recover, it takes a few weeks at least, and you need to persevere. You then need to maintain a healthy and consistent way of eating and always keep the vitamins topped up to prevent you from relapsing. There is a lot of support for L-glutamine to help with nutrition specifically for your intestinal lining, this means buying some bodybuilder powder and having a couple of tea-spoons of this a day. A lot of this was taken from this paper below, but it does fit exactly with what I have experienced.
Treatment and Management of SIBO — Taking a Dietary Approach Can Control Intestinal Fermentation and Inflammation
Oh wow, thank you so very much for your excellent response, it all makes perfect sense.
I have Sauerkraut fermenting on my kitchen side as well as sourdough. I've been drinking Kombucha and taking Probiotics. I'm Vegan so have been taking Vitamin B12, Evening Primrose Oil (I've been taking that for years), D3 and Zinc.
I understand what you are saying about fasting, I will do that.
I've had a Colonoscopy, lots of blood tests, 2 stool tests and an Ultrasound. I'm having a blood test on 18 April for the Pancreas as the Ultrasound picked up that the tube to my Pancreas is wider than it should be.
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Candida...Horopito & aniseed
Candidiasis testing on NHS
Feeling pretty poorly this morning 
H pylori maybe?
