Eating during remission
Build a balanced, varied pattern that supports energy and nourishment while respecting your individual tolerance.
Nutrition alongside specialist IBD care
Personalised nutrition support for living with IBD
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can affect appetite, food confidence, energy and everyday routines as well as digestion. Personalised support can help you nourish yourself more confidently alongside your gastroenterology and IBD care.
Work one-to-one with Beth to explore practical nutrition and lifestyle priorities while your IBD team continues to lead diagnosis, disease monitoring and medical treatment.
Individual support
Nutrition needs can change throughout your IBD journey
The right approach depends on your diagnosis, disease activity, treatment, surgical history and nutritional status.
Reduced appetite
Explore practical ways to maintain energy and protein intake when full meals feel difficult.
Diarrhoea and hydration
Consider food, fluid and electrolyte needs alongside the treatment and monitoring directed by your IBD team.
Weight and nutritional risk
Unintentional weight loss or difficulty maintaining intake requires prompt discussion with your medical team and dietitian.
Food fear and restriction
Work towards a more confident relationship with food without removing entire food groups unnecessarily.
Life after surgery
Any advice involving a stoma, stricture or bowel surgery follows guidance from your surgical and specialist dietetic team.
A coordinated approach
Nutrition support that respects your clinical treatment
Food can influence comfort and nutritional wellbeing, but it does not replace medicines used to control inflammation.
Beth considers the recommendations already provided by your IBD team and stays within her professional scope. If specialist clinical dietetics is more appropriate, that recommendation will be made clearly.
Disease activity
Recommendations differ between remission, persistent symptoms and a suspected flare. A flare must be assessed by your IBD team.
Food and symptoms
A structured record may help identify patterns without assuming that a symptom-triggering food causes inflammation.
Nutritional adequacy
Energy, protein and a varied diet remain central, especially after periods of low appetite or restriction.
Clinical monitoring
Blood tests, stool tests, scans and endoscopy belong with your medical team and are not replaced by functional testing.
Medicines and supplements
Prescribed treatment is never changed through nutritional therapy. Supplements are considered for safety and interactions.
Daily life
Work, fatigue, travel, meal preparation and confidence eating away from home are included in practical planning.
How it works
A supported process centred on safety
Your medical diagnosis and treatment plan provide the foundation for nutritional support.
1
Check suitability
We discuss your diagnosis, current disease activity, clinical care and whether Beth’s service is appropriate for your needs.
2
Personalise
Your consultation reviews symptoms, food intake, weight history, treatment, lifestyle and priorities before recommendations are made.
3
Review and coordinate
Follow-ups help adapt practical recommendations while changes in symptoms are referred to your IBD team.
Ongoing support
Complete Gut Repair: 3-Month Programme
A personalised gut-health programme that may be suitable for some people with diagnosed IBD when used alongside specialist medical care.
Suitability depends on your current health, disease activity and clinical support. If you are experiencing a flare, significant weight loss or complications, your IBD team and specialist dietitian must take priority.
“Although it has not fully gone, the symptoms I suffer are nowhere near as bad, and now I am aware what food I can eat and what foods upset me.”
Sarah · Family Support Worker, Nottingham · General digestive-health experience
Why VitaminBeth?
Personalised guidance with clear professional boundaries
Beth is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, registered with BANT, who specialises in gut and skin health and works online with clients across the UK.
Her role is to complement—not compete with—your medical team. Recommendations are tailored to your current situation, explained clearly and revised when your clinical circumstances change.
Qualified Nutritional Therapist
Registered BANT practitioner
Gut-health specialism
Personalised recommendations
Online UK-wide support
Medical collaboration required
Common questions
IBD nutritional therapy FAQs
What is the difference between IBD and IBS?
IBD mainly refers to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, which involve inflammation and require specialist medical care. IBS does not cause the same visible inflammation, although some digestive symptoms may overlap.
Can nutritional therapy cure Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis?
No. There is no diet that can be promised to cure IBD. Nutrition support may help with dietary adequacy, food confidence and symptom-related practicalities, but disease treatment and monitoring remain with your gastroenterology and IBD team.
Can I stop my IBD medication if I change my diet?
No. Do not stop, reduce or change prescribed medication without your prescribing clinician. Feeling better does not necessarily mean inflammation is controlled, so clinical monitoring remains important.
What should I eat during an IBD flare?
Contact your IBD team if you think you are flaring. Your needs may depend on disease location, symptoms, medicines, surgery and nutritional status. Beth does not provide a generic flare diet or replace urgent clinical advice.
Do I need to avoid fibre?
Not everyone with IBD needs a low-fibre diet. Advice may differ during remission, a flare or when a stricture is present. If you have a known or suspected narrowing in your bowel, follow the advice of your IBD team or specialist dietitian.
Will the included gut-health test monitor my IBD?
No. Functional gut testing does not diagnose IBD or replace blood tests, faecal calprotectin, scans or endoscopy requested by your clinical team.
Can Beth support someone with a stoma or previous bowel surgery?
Possibly, but only after checking suitability and alongside your surgical, IBD and specialist dietetic team. Clinical advice about obstruction risk, output, hydration and post-operative nutrition takes priority.
Are consultations available online?
Yes. Beth works remotely with clients across the UK, subject to suitability and the involvement of an appropriate medical team.
When to seek medical help
Contact your GP or IBD team if diarrhoea lasts more than seven days, pain or bloating persists, there is blood or mucus in your stool, or you are losing weight unintentionally. Severe abdominal pain, non-stop rectal bleeding, a large amount of blood, vomiting blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds requires emergency help.
Take the next step
Looking for nutrition support alongside your IBD care?
Book a free discovery call to discuss your diagnosis, current clinical support and whether VitaminBeth’s service is appropriate for you.
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