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Okay so I was diagnosed with crohn's at the end of march and went on modulen- a liquid diet for six weeks, now FINALLY I am slowly being reintroduced to food. The doctors were amazed at how well the modulen worked on me and there aren't any proven ways of how ti reintroduce best.

So first I could have rice/potatoes, then chicken or lamb, then pears (etc), then carrots (etc, then milk, eggs, bread, butter and that is all I have done so far.
On the modulen I had loose stools but it wasn't diarrhoea and recently have been going only once a day :) but today while at school (brilliant.) I had a bout of diarrhoea and had to practically run to the loo, it was definitely a lot more than loose- practically liquid and I am not sure what it could be.

On tuesday I had a plain boiled egg followed by an activia vanilla yoghurt which has quite a few flavourings etc but it seemed okay, the next day went to the toilet once and was fine.
Wednesday had a boiled egg with bread soldiers, a few pieces of bread also and a pack of gluten free bourbon biscuits, which are chocolately with a creamy filling- I am not actually allowed chocolate for over a week but these did not directly have chocolate in. However because they are gluten free it is likely they are full of weird things like vegetable starch etc so that is what I think set me off, what do you think?

Charlotte- age 15.
 
Go back to known good food. You should really try to only introduce one new ingredient every 3 days. This gives you long enough to determine if it was the previous item, or the new one. If you suspect something has upset you return to your known safe diet until you are back to normal. Then try introducing something else, returning to the suspect item later when you are sure you are well.
This is what worked well for me when I came off Elemental. Ideally keep a diary of exactly what you eat, including the ingredients, absolutely everything. And symptoms. Then you can match symptoms and foodstuffs to avoid. Obviously keeping to simple foods eases the tedium of writing it all down.
 

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