Chicken noodle soup with gluten based noodles? You have to stop gluten and dairy and heal your intestines with nutrition vegetable/fruit green drinks. If you take out the irritating elements, your intestines will heal. Use slippery elm bark powder as well. Also, add water kefir to your diet. The way IBD is formed is from the constant irritating diet of the western world. That is what all the medical professionals aren't telling you, because the condition is so profitable. Once the intestines are ripped up enough, dairy causes more irritation, so that is why they are linked. Stress to the region and general stress stops the healing process. This is how they get you, because you are bleeding, in pain, diarrhea, and everything else. The internal injury is only exacerbated by the immune suppressing drugs, which do nothing to heal you. Eventually, they get to make the big bucks with the surgery, which is the big payday and end goal for the medical professional. The drugs are just a way to distract you as your body deteriorates under the unnatural processes the medical world exposes you to. Every form of IBD is caused by environmental factors. Any biologist will tell you this for any endangered species. So, if you correct the dietary issues that got you to IBD, then you can regain balance. Sadly, children are getting it so fast these days, that they are sucked into a world of unethical doctors/hospitals and big pharma. This diatribe is brought to you by someone that has cured IBD. If you do any research, you will learn that Crohns/UC and all the other intestinal disorders aren't found in the 3rd world. As they make gains economically, their dietary food chain will more and more resemble ours, which will statistically increase their population's risk of getting the condition. Anyway, good luck. And I'm here, to help anyone that would like to help themselves.