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.

[Amys41]

I have an intolerance to fruit, dairy, and gutten.
I don't have problems with melons or mango. Pears seem ok is small amounts but the basics like apples, oranges, bananas and berries are very bad, but I don't have troubles with any sugars any candy is fine. I struggles with any fibers except veggies no troubles there. Bean are also an issue. I find it funny that I can have fried food with not issues but thing like fuirt can mess me up. I can't eat any thing is restaurants unless it is fired or I get super sick it can last for days, I think it is butter contamination but if it is fried it must counter act the butter some how.
I don't get it at all I was fine 3 years ago with not issues with food now am down to eating meat veggies and sugar.
My symptoms range from constipation  to diarrhea to it messing with my metal state.
I wish I could eat fuirt again I don't care about the rest I would even give up sugar for fuirt.

[boron]

To know if you have celiac disease and fructose malabsorption you may have appropriate tests. Some people who have all these food intolerance tests negative may be still irritated by several foods - it is said they have IBS. IBS is often transitional and becomes less severe with age, while fructose malabsorption tends to become worse.

[Linny210]

Hi,
Here's my story.  I'm lactose intolerant and have lots of other foods that give me major problems about 24 post ingestion.  All dried fruits, any kind of citrus zest, peaches of any kind, other stone fruits, lettuce, whole grain anything, brown rice, any kind of bean, high gluten breads, i.e., bagels, sour dough all cause problems.  The fruits and vegetables that I can eat, such as pineapple and tomato and the ones listed below, I can only do in moderation.  My options seem to get fewer and fewer and I love to cook.  At least then I can control  the menu.  Eating out is a lot less fun.  Help!

FRUITS:
- mango Y
- oranges N
- raspberries Y
- strawberries N
- watermelon N
- kiwi Y
VEGETABLES:
- onions Y
- leek Y
- carrots Y
- garlic Y
- parsley Y
CEREALS:
- wheat N
- barley ?
LEGUMES:
- beans N
- green peas Y
- soy ?
- lentils N
NUTS:
- pistachios ?
- peanuts (peanut butter) N
- hazelnutsN
- almonds N
- cashews N
- chestnuts ?
- walnuts N
- coconut ?
SUGARS/SWEETENERS:
- sucrose
- splenda
- maple syrup Maybe
- molasses
- brown sugar N
- raw sugar (Turbinado, Demerara)
- sorghum syrup
- caramel
- stevia

[boron]

Having problems with apples, but not other foods does not speak for fructose malabsorption, but more for allergy to apples.

[ConfusedMom101]

So far just apple. My two-year-old can't eat apples in any form(dried, juice, raw, ...) without getting really bad diarrhea. I try to use artificial sweeteners as little as possible and he hasn't reacted to anything else.

[boron]

Hi, I recommend you to get tested for hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI). I've heard for such hard syptoms in HFI, but not in fructose malabsorption (FM).

There's one useful forum for HFI here:
http://hfiinfo.proboards.com/index.cgi