What to eat with chronic colitis?

Reader Manh X. (nguyenman…@gmail.com) asked: I was diagnosed with chronic colitis, being treated with drugs regularly, but also suffered from severe pain. I heard that this disease is eating and drinking common foods but doing it the wrong way. How should I eat to get better?
Healer Dinh Cong Bay, General Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Pharmaceutical Association replied: People with chronic colitis should eat foods rich in protein but low in fat such as pork, lean beef, skinless chicken and duck, fish fillets, shrimp, tofu, soy milk, lactose-free milk. Fat is something to limit, eat no more than 15g per day. In addition, you need to eat green vegetables that are easy to digest such as spinach, water spinach, amaranth, cruciferous vegetables, pumpkin flowers, melon flowers, pumpkin, zucchini, young melons…

Pumpkin is a good food for people with colitis (Illustration from the Internet) Note that vegetables should use the young part, remove the fiber, old and hard. Dishes should be mainly cooked in the form of steaming, boiling, and limiting frying and stir-frying. In addition, you should drink enough water. Foods that should not be eaten include grilled meat, fatty meat, grilled fish, fried spring rolls, black beans, white beans, onions, raw onions, potatoes, bamboo shoots, wine, beer, coffee, carbonated soft drinks. because these foods can cause flatulence and bloating. Also, do not eat foods with a lot of lactose such as cow’s milk, with a lot of sugar such as too sweet fruits, honey, sweet candies, because these sugars will cause bloating, gas and diarrhea. Avoid hard foods such as tendons, cartilage, head, neck, chicken wings, bamboo shoots, raw vegetables, peas, cowpeas, boiled corn, boiled beans, roasted beans…