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How An IBS Sufferer Eased His Suffering

Posted on 12th January 2012 | There are 0 comments. Why not be the first?

This is a guest post from Nigel Thomas giving his view on how he helped his irritable bowel syndrome.

After being diagnosed as suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), my doctor advised me to change my diet by eating more fruit and fibre.

Well, if this simple change would ease the severe stomach cramps, bloating and bad indigestion I suffered I was up for it.

I'd also read that drinking goats milk could help me and those with respiratory problems too. As my daughter suffers from asthma it seemed worth a try. I must say it did help us both although it costs a lot more than cows milk.

I found the new diet changes weren't to hard to follow, while at home anyway, but at work it was a different matter.

I ate sandwiches each day and would often be left feeling bloated and suffering from bad indigestion after eating them.

One day my wife stumbled across a website that advised that adopting a gluten-free diet could help IBS sufferers.

Worth a try I thought. So we looked for a gluten-free alternative to our normal loaf. Luckily our supermarket had a reasonable range of gluten-free goods, although I had never noticed them before.

But I nearly fell over when I saw the price. Compared with our normal bread this was far more expensive. Buying goats milk and gluten-free bread was going to cost us a small fortune.

Worse still, the gluten-free bread didn't taste as good. It felt different, was far more chewy and frankly, just not as nice in my opinion.

Eating it didn't leave me feeling so bloated, but that could be because I threw most of it away.

After complaining about this for a couple of weeks my wife finally came up with a solution.

She suggested she could make her own gluten-free bread, and even cakes, if we were to buy a bread maker. Now as my wife had been banging on about a bread maker for a year or more I thought this was just her way of getting what she wanted.

But, after suffering the shop bought gluten-free bread I was willing to try anything.

After some research we settled on the Panasonic SD-2501WXC as it seemed to cover all our needs. Not only did it have a gluten-free program, but was also able to produce low salt and high-fibre loaves too.

It also came with an automatic raisin and nut dispenser as well as being able to make jam too if we wanted.

Eventually, after some trial and error, my wife was able to make a gluten-free loaf that I actually enjoyed eating. It looked, felt and tasted just like normal bread but without all the discomfort afterwards, it even worked out cheaper to make than the shop bought bread.

More importantly, from a health point of view, we knew all the ingredients that had gone into making it.

Not long after we bought our bread maker I discovered that the Panasonic SD-2500WXC did everything our bread maker did except for having the automatic raisin and nut dispenser, which actually made it is a little less expensive.

So, if you think a bread maker might be beneficial to you I recommend you check out all the best bread maker reviews first before making your final decision.

Since buying our bread maker, health wise we have never looked back, or as my wife likes to put it, she was right all along.