I did a low carb diet some time ago and it really didn't do ****, if it really helped I think more would be doing it. Maybe it helps, but it likely does not help enough to actually put you into remission. Some people claim they are in remission because of a low card diet but they are always people who don't have a severe case of crohn and they honestly were not on medication at all. I still need to hear about the first person who had a severe case of crohn, went on a low carb diet, did not use meds, and actually stayed in remission bc of the diet. Maybe it helps, maybe it does not, but whatever it does, it doesn't help enough.
I'm not saying don't try it, but there are sites that are just idiotic out there "how SCD cured my Crohn", those are just bs sites. The truth is probably somewhere in between, it might help, but it's not going to suddenly cure you.
The problem I also find with these diets, is that if you follow them, and really follow them, you are restricting yourself in so many ways. Short chain fatty acids are needed to build up your mucosa, which the SCD diet takes out, glucose is needed, the SCD diet might remove too much, calories are needed especially for crohn patients, SCD is super low calorie, all of that are big sacrifices you're making with that kind of diet, so you better make sure it's actuallying going to do something before you start it, because it's not going to be a pick-nick for your body if you need to stick to it. It's already a hard diet to follow for a normal person, let alone someone who has crohn.
Another reason why I became a sceptic of diets is that the elimination of foods is something plenty of people who have crohn already do....many crohn patients simply stop eating, I did that too. That never made me any better, ever, it simply made me skinny, if all it took was eleminating sugar, then how come every person who stops eating (and there are thousands of crohn patients who do this) just seem to get worse, they only get better if the inflammation is stopped and the mucosa heals, it's not liek they got better by eliminating certain foods, they were eliminating ALL foods, and they still got sicker, how come. Whatever diet does, it's not something that will put you into remission I think, crohn seems a lot more complicated to me than just eliminating a food category.
It's the same reason I question liquid diets or diets that are IV diets as a form of therapy for crohn. How is it that people say those things work for crohn because the diet is now liquid or through an IV but not eating at all does nothing for crohn. Or does it work because the form of crohn was so mild that they would have been in remission either way.
I still believe that eliminating specific foods probably help, like lactose for many people, and foods that are proven to have inflammatory elements in them, like tomatoes etc, but I'm not a fan of the low carb diets any longer, mostly because of the calorie restriction, because it didn't do anything at all for me and I followed it incredibly strictly.