Help needed with IBS friendly recipies

[Claripup]

Hi all,

My parnters son has just been diagnosed with possible IBS. The problem we have is he is a very fussy eater and mainly lives on milkshake, chicken/turkey in some form of coating (turkey drummers, chicken burgers etc) he hates salad and most fruit... wont eat any meat apart from chicken or turkey and only then if it doesn't taste "fatty" to him.

The more I am reading and being told about IBS the more foods I am learning can be a trigger!!

Anyway for the moment we are cutting out all sugars, sweetners, fats, dairy, beans and wheats (and obviously all the highly processed nasty stuff he likes eating). So far we are left with roast chicken/turkey breast with carrots cauliflower and boiled potaoes. Obviously we can't feed him that for every meal... and it's not the sort of thing you can put in a packed lunch!!

Please help as I'm at my wits end!! Apart from feeling terrible about not being able to come up with something tasty that he likes, the strops he throws over meals he doesn't like have to be seen to be believed (although so far he hasn't thrown a major one) which is the main reason we gave in initially over what he would get for dinners and just tried to sneek healthy stuff in where we could.

Thanks in advance
Clari

[Green Aura]

I have IBS, which these days rarely gives me any trouble.

My main trigger is refined wheat (and stress).

Even now if I eat white bread more than very occasionally, it causes instant constipation followed by excruciating colic-type pains.

Anyway that's probably more info than you required but my advice would be to start making slow changes and choose the obvious triggers first. Those would be stuff he eats a lot of.

If he's disciplined enough - I'm not - he could try keeping a food diary for a couple of weeks to see if there are any obvious culprits.

[Claripup]

Trust me there is no such thing as too much info... Besides I'm pretty much immune to squeemishness now, my family discuss bodily functions in detail over dinner!!

We are taking the "treat it like an allergy" route, hence cutting out of his diet all of the most common triggers... after a month of no stomach pains we can start to introduce the possible trigger groups (Wheat (bread) being the first one - if only to help with packed lunches!) He was very stressed about going back to school which possibly didn't help, plus he seemed to improve within 30 mins or so of being told he wasn't going to school... which would indicate that the stress made it worse (and no he definitely wasn't faking)

Anyway tomorrow he has wheat & gluten free pasta (which is NASTY tasting!) with some shreaded chicken and cheese for lunch with grapes, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks and home cobbled together strawberry yogurt (natural live yogurt with pureed strawberries mixed in) I'm not expecting him to eat any of it... I guess eventually he'll get hungry enough to eat anything.

But this is Horrible!

[Green Aura]

Yes, it'll be rough for a while, especially if his diet has contained a lot of processed food. The good news is that the longer he manages to stick with it, not only will he feel much better, but his taste buds will change and he may not go back to his old food.

The other thing is it may be a lack of roughage that's causing the problem - I can eat wholewheat based products, it's just the white, refined stuff that gives me pain.

As an aside, he's not getting bullied or anything is he? It can be so difficult for kids, especially boys, to admit it.