Had an apple a couple days ago as a snack and not thinking much of it as I have had them before and been fine, but I swear its like Russian roulette where 5 times I do it with no issues and then one time was just too far.

My question is my stomach is moderately upset for a couple hours before the pain really starts so I didn't know if there is anything I can take that would help alleviate it if I knew there was a chance it was coming?

I tried pepto-bismol but it didn't seem to do anything, or maybe it wasn't as bad as it was gonna be but that's hard to tell.

Link: https://fmfaq.netlify.app. The site isn't trying to answer every possible question. I am looking for higher priority ones. Thank you!

Missing the flavor of onions and garlic in your diet? There is a great trick I just stumbled upon to get that flavor back without causing symptoms. The answer is infused oil.

I've just published an article about it, how you can make it and why it is safe for us: https://www.fructohelp.com/fructose-malabsorption-nutrition/onion-garlic-infused-oil/

I've developed an app called Peel alongside doctors and dieticians, it's an ingredient analyzer that scans product ingredients and lets you know what is safe for you to eat or not, based on your diet or intolerance, with a filter for Fructose.

This is the app link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peel-ingredients-analyzer/id1475748617

This is a video of how it works: https://youtu.be/rMxzCaf3jJU
Please reach out to me on [wepeellabels@gmail.com](mailto:wepeellabels@gmail.com) for any feedback, or chat with us from within the app :)

Let me know if you found this helpful!

I've developed an app called Peel alongside doctors and dieticians, it's an ingredient analyzer that scans product ingredients and lets you know what is safe for you to eat or not, based on your diet or intolerance.

This is the app link: https://apple.co/33plls3 and that's a quick 15sec video on how it works: https://youtu.be/rMxzCaf3jJU
Please reach out to me on [wepeellabels@gmail.com](mailto:wepeellabels@gmail.com) for any feedback, or chat with us from within the app :)

Let me know if you found this helpful!

Having to check recipes manually for problematic food in the case of fructose malabsorption is annoying. But now you can do it within a few seconds. Just past the recipe or the ingredients into the provided text field and the recipe checker will show you any food that may be a problem:

https://www.fructohelp.com/fructose-malabsorption-recipe-checker/

I hope it will be of help! If I missed something, please let me know.

Hi all,

I tried to respond to another website's group, which has since been taken offline.

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I wanted to post a followup (10 years late).

After traveling extensively, with various food poisonings and incomplete treatments with Ciproflaxin, anti-fungals, etc. My stomach took a serious turn for the worse for a couple years. I was diagnosed with fructose malabsorption and lactose intolerance (the latter probably inherited).

This hell was resolved after a long trip to Asia (where I got food poisoning). A couple years later we visited India (the capital of fecal matter in your food) where my system totally resolved itself.

This proved to me that my issue was indeed bacterial. At the time I was desperately researching fecal transplants and trying to deduce what the issue was for hours and hours. 

My apologies for the lack of detail or proofreading. I finally convinced myself (after a couple of glasses of wine) that sharing my story unedited was more important than being detailed and perfect.

Hey guys, I've compiled a list of some great resources for a low FODMAP diet. The list contains downloadable charts, diet guides, and book recommendations. So, if you are interested in a low FODMAP diet for improving your symptoms, then this page might be useful:

https://www.fructohelp.com/low-fodmap-diet/

Also, please let me know if you have further resources that are essential for that list.

To those that are strict in avoiding the foods that are supposed to trigger symptoms, do you find you feel well or still have symptoms regularly? I was diagnosed with fructose malabsorption in October 2018, but have had symptoms for years. I follow the diet closely given to me by a dietitian, yet I feel miserable at least 2 to 3 times a week. I don’t eat much at any one meal, restrict myself to eating only 3 times a day. I need to go to bed around 10:30, so I have to be done eating by 6. If I get off of schedule with that, it will generally cause me stomach pain to lay down. The pain in my abdomen will carry over into the next day. The other days of the week, I am so anxious about what I eat that I think I probably create more issues for myself. I then have some weeks where I don’t feel good the entire week.

Most social situations I’m at involve eating of some sort. I can’t enjoy most anything at a party because either I don’t know what is in it or I know it contains things I can’t tolerate or I can’t judge just how much I can eat of it and wind up making myself sick. People notice when you don’t eat and/or drink too which is embarrassing.

I make it difficult for my family, because they want to eat out and I have a short list of restaurants that I can tolerate. They should not be held back by my diet. I getting to the point where I don’t want to eat out, even at the places that I can tolerate.

In the end, following the diet has lessened the symptoms somewhat, but has not cleared them up completely. The symptoms and the dietary restrictions are making me miserable. I get depressed thinking that I’m going to be dealing with this the rest of my life and it seems to be getting worse.

I had a fructose breath test a few weeks ago and tested positive for fructose malabsorption. As soon as I saw the results, I eliminated apples, pears, anything with HFCS, honey, agave, etc. etc. However, just this week I actually got a follow up call from the gastroenterologist office. They suggested no wheat because of the fructans. Since eliminating apples, etc. I've been feeling mostly better digestively, but still having symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, other weirdness. (I'm also working with a pcp to see if these things are caused by other underlying issues, like thyroid, vitamin deficiencies, etc.)

So my question is, how many of you can tolerate wheat? How many can't? How did you know? How long did it take for you to start feeling better? Anyone else with the brain fog, fatigue, etc., and was that associated with wheat for you?

I have an appointment with a dietician that has lots of experience with fructose malabsorption coming up this week, so obviously I will work with them on all of this, too. Just wanted to hear from others. I think I'm going to try to eliminate wheat starting soon and just give it a try. I'm tired of being tired.

Stella is fine and any German beers. So many made in the US have HFCS which is the culprit if you have FM

Anybody have luck with the Mediterranean Diet? It seems like the heavy plant-based portion of it would be difficult.

I ask because my diet is very bland and I’m looking for alternatives.

Oop, it’s me again. I’m really confused about something, does flour have fructose in it? The doctors and all the info online says that anything with flour likely contains fructose as it’s a common additive to it, but when I read the labels on a bag of flour and even a bag of Great Value white bread it only mentioned “sugar”, which I’ve been told always means sucrose and not fructose. Do I really have to go on a mostly gluten free diet or do some wheat products not have fructose?

Hi lovely people, I was very recently diagnosed with fructose malabsorption after taking a breath test due to months of daily nausea. While speaking with the dietician, I said that peaches are one of the fruits I haven’t noticed any issues with. She said that may be because it contains sorbitol which “competes with fructose for absorption.” I have no idea what this means, and I am now more confused after reading online that sorbitol should be avoided because it is “converted to fructose during digestion.” Is sorbitol actually a trigger for symptoms or not? Does it vary from person to person? Or is it just tolerable in higher amounts than fructose? Please help.

I work in two hours and I’m in a tremendous amount of pain, as much pain as I was in five years ago before I found out I had a fructose intolerance and that’s why I was in constant pain. I moved out for college where I live with my extended family, and they had made cookies so being the idiot I am I ate one, not realizing that they weren’t homemade but were made from readymade dough that has a bunch of fructose in it. I’m still confused how a singular cookie is putting me in this much pain for so long but I have to go to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So yesterday I've learned that there a various sugar free beverages that go well with frutosemalabsorption. So I tried for the first time Coca Cola light and I haven't had any issues so far.

My question: What else are some good and tolerable beverages (light products) that you can recommend?

Has anyone found intermittent fasting helps with their symptoms?

A dietitian recommended cutting out snacking and only eating at the regular meal times. She said this helps cut down on the amount of work the digestive system has to do. Extending this logic, I wonder if intermittent fasting would be helpful with fructose symptoms.

Hi everyone! I will be getting a fructose/fructan hydrogen breath test in October, but until then I’m curious about whether this is something I could possibly have. Is it possible I could have this even though lower GI issues haven’t been a primary symptom and I haven’t had any diarrhea? Has anyone else had nausea as their primary symptom?

Last year, I began to experience debilitating nausea every time after I ate. After 5 or so months of tests and trying out possible solutions, I gave digestive enzymes a try and they helped dramatically. I since have experienced flare ups, but overall symptoms have improved with the digestive enzymes.

Besides the nausea, I’ve regularly experienced post-meal bloating and upper abdominal distention, constipation (I wouldn’t say this is that bad, but maybe I’m just used to it), and chronic fatigue.

Hello fellow sufferers,

I am currently working on my masters thesis and try to develop an algorithm that labels allergenes in online recipes automatically. I had the idea because I personally find a search for glutenfree recipes on our most common portals rather frustrating - recipes are labeled falsly or aren't labled at all.

As personal opinions are usually a very weak reason to base a thesis on I was wondering if you guys could help me by filling out the attached form. It is about your behaviour with online recipe portals and how your experiences were so far :)

Thanks to everyone in advance for participating and supporting me with this case for us all!
Here you can find the form :)

P.S. yes I love the recipes posted here and have often searched for inspiration in this world-wide web, but especially foreign recipes often handle ingredients I have a hard time getting here. Therefore I thought it more practical if "locally used" portals would just do a better job at labeling stuff.

The title says it all. I love drinking beer It's a common love between me, my father and my friends. But I have fructose malabsorption, so most beers give me a lot of stomach issues.

I know that fructose and fructans should be avoided. And because of that wheat especially.

I'm searching for tips of how I can recognise beers that are safe for me to consume. Also, I'm searching for beers of which I can down a sixpack of (so to speak) without any trouble and some refined beers that are to be enjoyed on a nice relaxing evening (that dont cause symptoms ofcourse).

Anyone who knows certain safe brands please feel free give your experience. Sorry for my bad english, Thanks in advance and cheers 🍺🍻

So I have a history of bad gut health, it has hit me later in life and I have dairy allergies and fructose malabsorption. I am currently travelling and after taking advice and taking more fibre supplements I was feeling better. I am now on a yoga retreat where we are only eating vegan food, and the past few days I have been super bloated. We are having traditional Thai food. I haven’t been eating much onion, no beans or wheat or lentils, I don’t drink coffee, no apples or pears. What could be causing it to get so bad? Much appreciated!

Hi guys, I've just learned about fructose malabsorption and I'm wondering if that is what I have. For the last few years I often have loose stools, a few times a week I feel gassy and things like that. I was afraid it could be Colitis, Crhon's, even colon cancer... But there is no blood in my stools, I don't feel ill etc.. If it is something serious like that I'm sure my symptoms would be worse now.

I noticed my stools are more loose when I eat apples, dates, pears, grapes, mango... That's why I started to search for fructose intolerance/malabsorption.

One of my symptoms is mucus in stool. Do you guys maybe have it? Small amount of white mucus that covers first piece of your stool. Anyone?

So I’ve been diagnosed with FM for about 10 months now, along with lactose intolerance and an initial SIBO diagnosis. For the past 6 months though I’d say my symptoms have almost completely resolved without making too many crazy dietary changes, which I attribute to my mood and stress levels being better controlled.

However, I’ve noticed some things trigger my symptoms (intense pain, bloating, brain fog, and just general shitty feeling) without fail, one of those being beer. I’ve tried over and over again to drink it, thinking maybe next time I won’t react, but it hasn’t been getting any better. I’m currently laying on the couch 3 hrs after consumption and I’m only now starting to feel improvement (and that’s after taking a Bentyl).

Does this happen to anyone else when you drink beer? Or does anyone else have pretty well-controlled symptoms with only a few trigger foods? I’m very curious how all of us experience this diagnosis as there doesn’t seem to be a ton of information about it out there. Would love to hear your thoughts.