Diverticulitis

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I have two good friends that suffer with divers.... it can be really bad. He'll really need a specific diet to keep himself from having flares. Anything with small seeds (like tomatoes or strawberries) can bring on an attack. I guess you have little pockets in your intestines and if food gets lodged in the pocket it abscesses and that's when the pain begins. There will be a lot of anitbiotics in his future if he doesnt control what he eats. It gets worse as you get older too, so that isn't very promising.
Good news is that it wasnt caused by the vasectomy and that he's caught it early so he can learn how to deal with it. IF he doesnt take care of himself he can find himself in the OR having a few feet of intestine removed :(

HI SB,

Get him on a GREAT fiber supplement. I dealt with Ulcerative Colitis from the time I was 11 until I was well into my forties with the doctor telling me all the wrong things to do. Basically, a clean colon is a healthy colon. NO ONE ever told me that. They told me to be gentle with it....their version of gentle was simply making it worse. Fiber keeps it clean. It's the residues that are left behind that fester and cause irritations and eventually the cancers.

I no longer have UC. I have not had a symptom is almost 10 years now. Just because I began eating the way God intended from the beginning. I believe that the body is very resilient and can heal itself if given the opportunity. PM me if you want more info. I hate to think anyone has to deal with the pain I had. ..........

God bless,
M.

My grandpa was diagnosed with it years ago. He kept in under conrol with a proper diet. For him, the Illinois farmer, it meant no more corn. When he would get a bug up his rear and eat something on the no no list, like he did often, he would get sick.
Help him at home by making foods that are easily digestible.
YOur mom should have some good ideas.

Good luck and I hope he starts to feel better soon.

You more than likely read when you Googled it that it's an auto-immune disorder/disease, and it will be with him for the rest of his life. It can cause LOTS of pain (as you are more than likely aware since your parents suffer from it) and at it's worse can be dangerous and require surgery.

It's really nothing to play around with, as I've seen with my sister and her husband who both suffer from it. When she was diagnosed with it they were ready to take her to surgery to remove 6 inches of collapsed colon and perform a colostomy, she refused, was given antibiotics for the infection, which she has had to take periodically, and has found the best way to deal with it is the proper diet and trying to avoid stress (impossible in our family.)

This is something you want to avoid avoiding, for your husband's well-being tell him to see the gastroenterologist, seek a referral to a nutritionist who can recommend the right diet for him and stay on top of it rather than allow it to get out of control.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001303/
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/tc/diverticuliti...
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/diverticulo...
(These are all pretty straight-forward sites)