Low Residue Foods, Menus, and More

For Crohn's disease sufferers and ulcerative colitis sufferers, flare ups can result in upwards of 30 trips to the bathroom a day. Lessening the frequency of bathroom trips by using the low residue diet will help to decrease the inflammation in your digestive tract and allow you to get back to normal quicker. For the same reason a bowel surgery patient uses the diet, it applies exactly to these chronic disease sufferers. Flare-ups cause inflammation and damage to the digestive tract. Lessening activity within the GI tract will help their bodies to recover quicker and lessen the inflammation.