Can't Eat FRUITS? Get Bloating and Diarrhea? Please Contribute.

[boron]

Hi to all. I'm doing an online investigation about DIETARY FRUCTOSE INTOLERANCE (DFI). In this condition most fruits (apples, pears, prunes...), honey, some vegetables (tomatoes, artichoke...), products with added High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), sorbitol (in "low calorie" foods or "sugar free" chewing gum) and often wheat and onions cause BLOATING and DIARRHEA (also headache or depression). For more info click on my username and check "journals".

If someone thinks, he/she might have this condition (often misdiagnosed as IBS), I want to discuss with you in this thread about which exact fruits, vegetables, cereals and sugars you can/can't tolerate.

[crystalfresh]

To add
There was also pears in my jelly too. I'm really doing a job on my self.

[boron]

Honey, corn syrup (but only high fructose corn syrup), pears and tomatoes all contain fructose.
Pasta, if from wheat, contains fructans, these are moleculles made from more fructoses.

It's possible you are fructose intolerant. If you find out that this is the case, you shouls avoid
- fructose (fruits and fruit products, especially apples, prunes, pears, dates, agave, raisins, peaches, sweet cherry)
- honey
- some vegetables like tomatoes, and usually beans.
- fructans (wheat, onions, leek, Jerusalem artichoke and maybe asparagus)
- sorbitol (sugar free chewing gum, diet soda, low calorie foods)

Fructose intolerance is NOT an allergy, so a fructose intolerant person can have small amount of fructose, according to his/her tolerance threshold.

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Anyone who has problems with fruits, invited to fulfil the questionaire from the 2nd post above.

[crystalfresh]

Ironically I am allergic to most of those fruits but not all. You listed.
fruits and fruit products, especially apples, prunes, pears, dates, agave, raisins, peaches, sweet cherry. So yes to all of them cause gas. Raisins and peaches very bad for me. Brb going to check my allergy list. Yep not allergic at all to peach, so there ya go. I stopped eating peaches years ago because gas and irritations was not easily tolerated.

Lets not even talk about something called fruit punch. Especially the fake kind which is all syrup and grape juice mix. Gas in 15 minutes. That was years ago before my allergies were a problem. Just as bad now.

I'd compare it to lactose intolerance. Ok this is me. I have a fructose intolerance too then. :( But glad I identified it. I would not have know it existed if you hadn't educated me to it on my other posts. :)

I do eat dairy with a product called lactaid. Do they make something similar for fructose ?

[crystalfresh]

I went to the web sites listed in your profile and pulled the list of foods that I am not allergic to. For the next 3 days I am sticking to this list to see what happens.

List of safe foods for me.
Bread: Rye bread pita (allergy-No- yeast, soy, vegi-olive-canola-flax oils, barley)
                                 maybe add poppy or sesame on the bread
           Rice bread made from white rice flower and buckwheat noodles
Pasta: Rice noodles from white rice if I can find it.
Corn: Corn flakes no sugar, hot air pop corn.
Meats: chicken, turkey, fish, pork, egg whites-(but wonder if they are a problem)
Dairy: Mozzarella cheese from part skim-(with lactaid product), no sugar added.
Fruit: strawberry, blueberry, cranberry, lemon, lime, maybe oranges...
Celery, cooked spinach, white potatoes

I am going to try and buy as much of these foods as I can. If I can't get them I'll just eliminate them from the list but not supplement. I am now a guinea pig. I will be very strict on my eating and post results after test. I'm excited. I want to be better. Thank you.

[boron]

It helps, if you ingest some pure glucose (available as dextrose or glucodin, or glucose syrup) along with the food high in fructose. This won't help with foods high in sorbitol though.

Glucose helps in absorption of fructose.

And, crystalfresh, its important to remember that fructose, sorbitol and wheat can all irritate you. Some are tolerant to wheat others are not, so you have to find this out.

Also: Fructose malabsorption is NOT an allergy. In allergy you get reaction to even tiny amount of culprit food, but in fructose malabsorption you can often eat small amount of problematic foods.

Next: fructose malabsorption can be officially tested with hydrogen breth test with fructose.

[crystalfresh]

Thanks, I am scheduling the test for fructose and bacteria too. :) I learned for sure last night that greasy foods like my chips cause gas in my colon. Very different because this is lower down and doesn't cause nausea. But even just today I am feeling a bit better. I used to think that when my intestine was irritated I should eat lots of fruit to help move things through thus thinking it would fix the problem.