Avoid stress and maintain a healthy diet is key for patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease
July 25th, 2010 | 
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Experts from the European Institute of Biomedicine (IEB) recommend that patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis who try to avoid stress and proinflammatory certain foods like red meats, cow’s milk, flour, refined, simple sugars and trans fat ‘in order to reduce the occurrence of crisis.
According to this expert group said on the occasion of World Day for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which is celebrated on the 27th May, 25 percent of new cases of ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease diagnosed in the hospitals were in people younger 18 and for processing, propose to modify the usual diet as “beat up the inflammatory processes of any kind and helps reduce the consumption of drugs.” “Inflammatory or restrictive diets have a central role since it can have a positive impact on the evolution of processes, reduce crises and improving the nutritional status of the patient,” explains José Francisco Tinao, medical director of the IEB, also highlighting the importance of detoxification programs that facilitate the work of the liver and the elimination of toxic compounds.
Thus, the soluble fiber found in apples, nuts and oats, reduce inflammation and strengthen the immune system. This kind of fiber, in addition to capture water, are able to reduce and slow the absorption of fats and sugars from food, so that help regulate cholesterol levels and blood glucose. Also propose that the anti-inflammatory menu, based, on one hand, the elimination of pro-inflammatory foods like red meat, cow’s milk, flour, refined, simple sugars and trans fat, the latter present in ‘snacks’ and savory snacks, pre-cooked products, cookies, margarine and bakery products. The diet of these patients required instead to increase consumption of foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids, which are not produced internally in the body and are found especially in oily fish and nuts, and that “thanks to his contribution, improves performance of the body and reduces inflammation. ” In addition, the menu must prevail, according to Tina, vegetables and grains complex, unroasted seeds and white meats, preparing all this menu either grilled, steamed or baked. And is that when a crisis occurs, with symptoms ranging from lack of appetite, fatigue, fever or abdominal pain, “regardless of the diet is followed, starting diarrhea hits that irritate the gut and weaken the immune system,” explains IEB in a statement. AFFECTING OFFICERS OR PERSONS “UNDER PRESSURE” On the other hand, Tina and her team say the role of stress is “undeniable” in the evolution of both pathologies, such as shows that among those affected “are often managers or persons who usually work under pressure.” This is because the situations of extreme tension affecting the nervous system and affect the function of the digestive tract, hence the need to use mind-body techniques for patients to be able to “manage your stress and make resting phases or sleep to be repaired, “said Jose Francisco Tinao, medical director of the IEB. To do this, Tinao acknowledges that visualization programs, relaxation techniques or performing heart coherence, are useful to address the problem “without resorting to the use of tranquilizers or medications with side effects.” Serosanguineous diarrhea tend to predominate in ulcerative colitis and Crohn abdominal pain, but symptoms and signs overlap with other clinical expressions may also extraintestinal. In the evolution of both diseases complications such as perforation, bleeding and intestinal obstruction can often lead the patient to the operating room and in some cases it might present a global malnutrition or deficiencies of essential nutrients.