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    Bananas

    bananas Here's a good tip: bananas that have brown spots are easier to digest ( the more brown spots the better), because their difficult to digest carbohydrates have been turned into easier to digest natural sugars.
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    Make your own electrolyte drink

    make your own electrolyte drink I don't know if anyone is interested, but here is a recipe for making your own electrolyte drink ( I found it somewhere years ago- I worry about additives in bought/processed items)- this is cheap too! : 1 quart boiled filtered water 2 Tblsps honey 1/4 tsp salt...
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    Diet/sulphasalazine/and high B12 levels = microflora activity

    Hello. What do you think of this: I had a recent blood test that reveled overly high B12 levels- odd, as usually B12 that is not used by the body is excreted. Many abstracts that I read on this seemed to consider this finding an anomaly, and offered no explanation other than someone taking...
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    Pinching pain in lower left abdominal area

    Hello. I am in the middle of a big flare up. I've been having the familiar nausea, cramps, and around 20 boughts of diarrhea every day and have lost about 8 pounds,( which I can't afford to lose as I am small - 5 feet 1 and 105 pounds). I was given Sulphasalazine which seemed to begin to work...
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    New here; hello to all of you

    new here; hello to all of you Hello. I'm Mia. I have had my inflamatory bowel disease for some years, but recently it has worsened, and as a result I have felt the need to search out people I could talk to about it; who would understand; and might be able to help me with some of my fears and...
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