Weight gain, used to smoke with Crohns Disease

Dec 28, 2011

Weight gain, used to smoke with Crohns Disease NEW
by: Lydia D.

It is commendable that you have stopped smoking and drinking. I shared a ward earlier this year with a 30 year old Crohn's patient who had smoked for 15 years and who had just had a major (first) heart attack. She had a stent placed and will be on beta-blockers for the rest of her life. In those 15 years she was never free from Crohn's symptoms. She did stop smoking.

My first suggestion would be to cut out all pure sugar sources from your diet, including sodas, sweets, chocolates, honey, syrup, etc.

You don't say what other meds you are on, but be aware that your various joint and muscle aches and pains might be due to vitamin and mineral deficiencies and not just Crohn's extraintestinal symptoms.

Make sure that you are getting enough vitamin C and the 8 B-complex vitamins (the water-soluble vitamins). There is little likelihood of you overdosing on the water-soluble vitamins. There is an upper limit of 50 mg B6 per day, but you would need to take a handful of vitamin B-complex tablets to get to that dose.

A fish oil tablet a day should help you keep the fat-soluble vitamins topped up. For minerals drink tomato juice, milk (lactose-free if necessary), diluted fruit juice (if tolerated), home-made soups, etc. Fruit is high in sugar, so go heavy on the vegetables instead. If your vitamin and mineral intake is optimal and you exercise each day you should be able to control your weight.

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-VitaminsMinerals/

Drinking Cola and co. will eventually result in osteoporosis. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-408800/Women-warned-stop-drinking-cola-avoid-brittle-bones.html

Be aware that if you are on certain medication, you may develop dietary deficiencies:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1197979/Heartburn-pills-wrecked-life-How-antacids-effects.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1395028/How-medicine-draining-vital-nutrients-body.html

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