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I used Ensure Plus chocolate with no added fiber. Regular Ensure in the cans has some prebiotic added fiber which was tough on me EEN is a well-described and e
by jcrben 5y ago
I used Ensure Plus chocolate with no added fiber. Regular Ensure in the cans has some prebiotic added fiber which was tough on me
EEN is a well-described and effective therapy for Crohn's. Used less in adults, and much less common in North America for whatever reason (awareness is probably kinda low). The trials establishing it happened back in the 1980s IIRC.
Decreasing microbes is posited as one of the possible mechanisms of action IIRC. See the CD-TREAT diet
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30550821/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30550821/
- nikkwong 5y agoAh; so that was a sort of elemental diet (if you've heard of them) for you. How much credit would you assign to those courses in helping overcome your disease?
- jcrben 5y agoI think it helped a lot and I did a bit of a mini crossover trial where I did the enteral nutrition for a few weeks and then not. And yeah the elemental formula I tried is https://www.integrativepro.com/products/physicians-elemental-diet https://www.integrativepro.com/products/physicians-elemental... but it's super expensive, tastes terrible, and studies don't show that it has better results than polymeric formula. Ultimately ideally you only go through the bad phase once. If you can get into remission earlier you have a better chance of durable deep remission where your gut is totally repaired and your chance of the negative flywheel of wound -> bacteria leaking into bloodstream -> tnf inflammation -> bigger wound is minimal.
- girvo 5y ago> Ensure Plus chocolate with no added fiber This is entirely unimportant, but I always really liked the taste of that one.