Gastro-Intestinal Distress...

[Albionwood]

Digestive problems like this seem to be increasingly common. Do you eat any other fermented foods, especially lacto-fermented, like sauerkraut, kimchi, or brine pickles? Or yogurt? Some people find these foods help establish a healthy gut flora that helps with the enzymes. Also they are acidic.

 

[plumber_bob]

Only issues I have as far as commercial compared to homebrew, I can run a crowd off with my homebrew gas!

pb

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Stomach problems suck, i had some pretty annoying ones for quite a few months where i just had really bad cramping non stop...thank god it wasnt Crones disease or something. Just took prilosec OTC for 8 weeks as suggested by a family member whose a GP doctor and its more or less gone now.

The only thing that seemed to help it was eating a serious meal if it kicked in, which kept me from wanting to go anywhere because i'd feel like crap if i couldnt whip out a meal and eat it right then.

 

[LostBrewer]

Digestive problems like this seem to be increasingly common. Do you eat any other fermented foods, especially lacto-fermented, like sauerkraut, kimchi, or brine pickles? Or yogurt? Some people find these foods help establish a healthy gut flora that helps with the enzymes. Also they are acidic.

I believe there is actually a lot of flora which died, and possibly parts of differant orgains/glands which aren't working right because of it. I'm not going to bore you with the details but I can't eat anything like I use to. No Dairy, no red meats (including pork), no breads &or breaded food, no pastas/noodles, no rice, no caffiene or chocolate, nothing greasy including french fries and potato chips.

Why I mentioned glands, is because there is a gland in the head which tells you that you are dehydrated. I believe there is damage to it because I will feel fine, but I go out to mow the lawn, and in five minutes I've got dehydration issues (fast heart beat, weakness, can't catch my breath, feeling faint) until I go gulp down 32 ounces of water and lay down for 30 minutes. After that, I can sweat through my cloths while mowing for an hour with no problems.

As for fermented foods, they are good: kraut, kimchi, pickles, but no dairy. In addition, garlic is a natural anti fungus food, but you have to eat that raw or you'll lose it's effects. The effects are minor, but still noticable.

I've heard "Go to a doctor" I have and now I have no confidence in the medical industry any more. Why? After getting 35K worth of bills from doctors telling me "I don't know, I think you are just sucking down air" or "I don't know I think it's an anxioty problem, take these additive drugs" or "I don't know, but take these expensive heart meds, (which will kill your liver and kidneys and cause you a stroke in five years, and you'll have to just put up with lucid dreaming and erregular blood presure changes from the side effects)." and still no cure.

But for me the best cure seems to be: Stop drinking for two years or more years until my liver recover, if it will. *cough* new year resolution *cough* but I'll be damned if I stop brewing and sharing as gifts.

 

[skitter]

Love me some kraut!

I noticed that I have the same kind of issues, though not as drastic, if I drink a beer that I haven't let sit in the fridge for at least a week. Making sure the yeast is out of suspension is critical, especially as I have Chrons and am no stranger to digestive distress.

 

[Setesh]

I got a really bad infection that wouldn't go away, the doctors put me on some really powerful antibiotics that got rid of the infection, but seems to have killed off my normal bacterial load. I am mostly back to normal now after taking massive doses of probiotics for the last 4 months. Almost everything I ate gave me indigestion, gas, and sometimes just went straight through me. Certain mundane things that I used to be able to handle fine I couldn't handle at all now, like cantaloupe or other melons, onions, eggs, peppers, and cheese. Beer didn't give me any problems though. Anyway, I started taking culturelle, and culture complex from the health food store. At first this gave me incredible gas ans stomach upset when I took the probiotics, then after a few days that went away and I started feeling better. I still can't handle cantaloupe or onions, but I can eat the other problem foods in moderation. This could just be my body normally healing itself, but it seemed like when I slacked off taking the probiotics I stopped getting better.

 

[Rhumbline]

I think I will feed the neighbor some today and see what happens...I am a whore for punishment so I will join him

I like the way this guy thinks. What are friends and neighbors for if not to be subjects in biochemical experiments!

 

[skitter]

I got a really bad infection that wouldn't go away, the doctors put me on some really powerful antibiotics that got rid of the infection, but seems to have killed off my normal bacterial load. I am mostly back to normal now after taking massive doses of probiotics for the last 4 months. Almost everything I ate gave me indigestion, gas, and sometimes just went straight through me. Certain mundane things that I used to be able to handle fine I couldn't handle at all now, like cantaloupe or other melons, onions, eggs, peppers, and cheese. Beer didn't give me any problems though. Anyway, I started taking culturelle, and culture complex from the health food store. At first this gave me incredible gas ans stomach upset when I took the probiotics, then after a few days that went away and I started feeling better. I still can't handle cantaloupe or onions, but I can eat the other problem foods in moderation. This could just be my body normally healing itself, but it seemed like when I slacked off taking the probiotics I stopped getting better.

Find kefir and drink 1/2c a day, it helps.

That and alcohol kills said bacteria makes life fun for guys like me

 

[tagz]

The first half of this thread is pretty funny. His ass explodes and he gets kicked out of bed, he thinks it's the beer, decides to give some to his neighbor to find out, ends up being rotavirus. Classic.