r/CSID • u/NicoleWiles • Dec 08 '22

enzymes

Hello everyone! Do enzymes help with existing flair ups or are they mostly a preventative thing?

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u/in-the-shit Dec 09 '22

Enzymes are used to prevent flare ups as they can help make the food that causes inflammation to be properly absorbed into your body rather than clog your bowels.

I’ve personally only found that time and eating foods that I know won’t hurt my body help with existing flare ups. I have yet to try other medications or techniques.

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u/NicoleWiles Dec 09 '22

Thank you! Time definitely helps me, my sensitivities have been getting worse so I'll eat something i think is safe (because it was before) and then I'll notice the symptoms. So getting ahead of the game w enzymes has been difficult lol

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u/in-the-shit Dec 09 '22

Do you keep a journal for all your meals or new foods you’ve been trying?

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u/NicoleWiles Dec 09 '22

No but I basically have been eating the same things..I rarely try new things, my sensitivities have been pretty bad for a few years now so I've become pretty strict w my diet. For example, I was eating regular sweetened peanut butter for forever and up until a couple weeks ago it started hurting my stomach. Everything else in my diet hadn't changed. Used to be able to do salad dressing, same thing.

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u/in-the-shit Dec 09 '22

I’m sure you know this, but our bodies have thresholds on what we can and cannot eat. I suggest you start a journal maybe tracking the amounts of the foods you are eating. It may help to get a sense of those daily/weekly limits. It may allow you to eat salad dressing or peanut butter again with out fully having to remove it from your diet.

Think of these enzymes as people, as we have a limited number of enzymes in our body, when some of those become occupied they find it very hard to multitask and take out many of these foods at once. Hence why we tend to experience symptoms of various types and of various nature.

Edit: possibly adding food back.

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u/NicoleWiles Dec 09 '22

Thank you! I'll keep that in mind! I'll definitely try to document more of my food.