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Fat malabsorption
Hi All, I am a new member to this forum. A good friend told me about it. I recently developed an inability to digest fat. I'm sort of subsisting on egg whites and white rice and rice cakes. I can eat some veggies too, but I'm craving fat!! i had a negative SIBO test. My doctors have sort of fallen off the radar since the test. What advice regarding tests, dietary changes, labs, etc., do you suggest? Thank you, Sue
Re: Fat malabsorption
Hi Sue,
As I wrote in response to your other post:
Welcome to the forum. Most of us have a fat malabsorption problem when our MC is active. MC can lead to the inflammation of any organ in the digestive system. When the small intestine is inflamed, digestive enzyme production is compromised. When the pancreas is inflamed, the production of pancreatic digestive enzymes is compromised. When the lipase production of the pancreas is reduced, fat cannot be properly digested. And the absorption of other nutrients is compromised when the food is not completely digested.
These problems are resolved, and the production of those enzymes resumes as the inflammation is brought under controlled and MC is put into remission.
Tex
As I wrote in response to your other post:
Welcome to the forum. Most of us have a fat malabsorption problem when our MC is active. MC can lead to the inflammation of any organ in the digestive system. When the small intestine is inflamed, digestive enzyme production is compromised. When the pancreas is inflamed, the production of pancreatic digestive enzymes is compromised. When the lipase production of the pancreas is reduced, fat cannot be properly digested. And the absorption of other nutrients is compromised when the food is not completely digested.
These problems are resolved, and the production of those enzymes resumes as the inflammation is brought under controlled and MC is put into remission.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.