Crohn's Disease: Maintenance of Remission by Diet

Dietary Beliefs and Behavior Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

“…Many of the foods commonly avoided by the respondents in the present study were also avoided by paediatric population, 30 while a Canadian identified chocolate, dairy products, fats and artificial sweeteners as factors associated to food intolerance. 31 Our findings also differ from those of the article by Riordan et al that identified cereals, dairy products, and yeast as a cause of food intolerance. 13 The discrepancy between our results and those of the Canadian and the East Anglian studies may be explained, at least in part, by differences in eating habits across countries.…”

A review of associations between Crohn’s disease and consumption of sugars

“…No signi®cant bene®ts of the low sucrose, high ®bre diet were seen. In the other, smaller, prospective randomised double blind study (Alun-Jones et al, 1985), a low sucrose, high ®bre diet was used as a control diet to assess the ef®cacy of an exclusion diet in the management of CD. All of the 10 patients randomised to the low sucrose, high ®bre diet had relapsed by six months whereas seven out of 10 in the exclusion diet remained well (P`0.05).…”

Nutritional treatment in inflammatory bowel disease: An update

“…However, food intolerance is not as frequent in CD patients as claimed by several previous studies and its occurrence and intensity are variable (79). While some studies have suggested that exclusion diets based on daily reintroduction of a single food type could be a useful intervention in active CD, one published study showed high relapse rates (62%) after 2 years (78,80). In fact, food sensitivity is of such insignificant importance that it does not warrant putting all patients through the inconvenience of elimination diets.…”