Crohn' s Symptom

I have a friend who has some of the symptoms of Crohn's.
She has no diarrhea and some products, especially wheat, bother her
intestines.

There are so many unreported additives in foods, that it's tough to know
what does what. For example dried banana chips that claim to be banana only,
and potato chips do bother her. She has no problem with even medium ripe
bananas.

In particular Trader Joe's brand of potato chips has supposedly only
potatoes, a vegetable oil and salt but this bothers her within a few hours,
whereas home cooked and mashed potatoes do not bother her - at least within
4-5 hours. Turnips are on the LCD but they gave her distress within a few
hours.

What is the time frame for measuring whether a food bothers the intestines?
Probably it depends on the kind of food.

There is a lot of things tat could cause these symptoms. You say she
doesn't have any diarrhea but does she have any bleeding? When you say she
can eat this without problems and that with problems, what kind of problems
do you mean? From what you describe here could be anything or nothing. She
might have a gi problem or she could be allergic to something in the foods
you speak of. The best think is to have her see a gi dr to have the tests
to find out what is wrong.

She has no bleeding and no diarrhea but has bowel inflammation that, after
eating a huge range of products, causes problems from mild discomfort to
severe pain.

She has been to a gi doc and had no satisfaction. The problem is not in his
book, so it must be in her mind :-(

If she lives on juices and things like apple sauce, she gets better over a
period of days but then she has to eat. She started the LCD but had an upset
from boiled turnips, which are on the approved list.

Unfortunately this happens a lot with drs saying it's all in your head.
Happened to me (have cd and other stuff) and a lot of others here. Go to a
new dr. Try to find one either through the www.ccfa.org site or by a
learning hospital in your area or other people you know who might know
someone with a gi that pays attention. You can also post here, city and
state only please, and maybe someone on the group lives near you and can
make a good reccommendation. If she has no diarrhea or bleeding than saying
she has a bowel inflamation may not be the right term. The kind of foods
you mention that seem to help her are fiber foods mostly.