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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: colitis
Message-ID: <1928@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 14:03:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  3 14:03:37 1983
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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	I have a very good friend who suffers from chronic (severe)
colitis.  He is going to a gastroenterologist who is less than helpful.
The main problem is that in YEARS of treatment, this physician has
never given any consideration to diet.  I have a two-fold question:

	(a) What is a healthy diet to HEAL one's gastro-intestinal tract?
	(b) What is a healthy diet for maintaining a healthy GI tract?

	In my experience, those two diets are different.  I think roughage
is probably critical for maintenance, but can be quite destructive to
a damaged GI tract.  Anyone who has a medically-sound answer to these
diet questions, please forward them.  My friend has been told that if his
colon doesn't look better in a few months, they want to remove it!
(He was sent home with medication.)

	Thanks in advance.


							Patricia Collins
							hplabs