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A Low FODMAP diet significantly improves functional gastrointestinal symptoms (pain, bloating, diarrhea) in IBD patients, but does not reduce underlying inflammatory disease activity.
If you have IBD and suffer from bloating, pain, or diarrhea, a Low FODMAP diet can significantly improve these functional symptoms and your quality of life. However, it does not treat the underlying inflammation of IBD, so it should be used alongside standard medical care and ideally under guidance to ensure nutritional adequacy.
Low FODMAP may potentially be helpful for those with concurrent functional gastrointestinal symptoms... LFD improved IBS symptoms... and health-related quality of life... compared to normal diet in IBD in remission... LFD improved gut symptoms compared to control... but did not show any decreases in markers of inflammation.
Why this rating
Supported by multiple prospective studies and controlled trials showing significant symptom relief, though effect on inflammation is null.
Source
Therapeutic Implications of Diet in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Related Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Yan Jiang et al. · Nutrients · 2021
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