I have had ibs for about a year now and have found which foods annoy my bowel and which done and have eased my symptoms by following a primal diet.
Theres one thing i never unstood though. My IBS would flare up everytime i use to eat dairymilk chocolate but yet not with other milk chocolate. Im fine with galaxy and Terry's orange ect. Only dairymilk flares my ibs really bad. Is it becuase dairymilk has more milk in it so more lactose?
I dont eat it know im orimal but its always made me wonder.
Might be some other additive rather than milk. If you were lactose intolerant you would react to most other products with dairy in them too.
Im fine with white chocolate, dark and all other milk chocolates , its only dairy milk that causes a flare. I cant have milk either or ice cream or single cream as all these also cause a flare.
But im fine with kefir yogurt or kefir milk and like i say i can eat other milk chocolates like galaxy. At christmas i was given a 200g bar and as it was christmas i ate the whole thing but no flare yet when i had only 50g of dairy milk my bowel went crazy. Its really odd. I have tested this a few times and dairymilk chocolate is always the trigger. My only other trigger foods are dairy high in lactose like milk , single cream ect ( im fine with hard cheeses and heavy or double cream or kefir dairy seems to be ok)
The only other food that triggers my symptoms is onions, garlic and gluten.
As long as i stay away from all of these foods im fine.
By the way i even tested the dairymilk when i was not consuming any other dairy or the other trigger foods and i still had a flare.
How individual we all are! I can drink milk, and eat cream and ice cream but cannot eat yoghurt or kefir. What sort of kefir do you drink, have you tried goat kefir?
I make my own kefir milk but i dont have that oftern as i prefer kefir yogurt from yeo valley.
I can tolerate milk in tea, chocolate sometimes and yoghurt occasionally but milk on its own, milkshake, icecream, cream etc make me ill. Ive always wondered if you have lactose with something else whether it will irritate less. Like cheese on pasta rather than a babybel on its own? Could be worth try the freefrom chocolate, i know Morrison's sell it, not to bad.
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IBS and Kefir grains/Milk 
confused and would appreciate some guidance 
Chocolate
