Take charge of your microscopic colitis

Getting Started

Our counselling starts with a 1 hour comprehensive assessment starting with a detailed history, diving deep into understanding your symptoms and how you’re currently managing with microscopic colitis. Our goal is to understand how your condition developed, so we can build a personalized plan.

Roadmap to Your Goals

From there, we will create a road-map of your care, both personalized and practical to help you learn to take care of your health from a place of intuition, empowerment and knowledge, build healthy habits, and fuel your body positively. We’re with you every step of the way.

Our Microscopic Colitis Strategies

We typically implement strategies that

1. Reduce how fast your bowels move
2. Improve stool consistency and sensation, and decrease urgency
3. Reduce the pull of water into the bowels
4. Focus on improving gut health and reducing inflammation
5. Improve nutrition status, energy, and overall health

While there is no research yet to support this, there are multiple cases in the dietitian and gastroenterology community of seeing an improvement on the low FODMAP diet. This is a type of diet that removes certain types of carbohydrates that ferment or pull water into the bowel, often worsening episodes of urgency and diarrhea. To ensure good symptom management, we will work with your physician or gastroenterologist to get access to further testing or medication as required.

Setting You Up for Success

Once we determine the best strategies to get you the most symptom relief, we focus on long-term planning. Microscopic colitis is rarely a ‘stable’ disease, with ‘flare ups’ coming and going. While we don’t fully understand why this happens, we believe the gut bacteria may play a role. As such, we want to help you foster a healthy gut microbiome.

Once your symptoms are improved, we focus on nutrition and lifestyle strategies so you have control over your symptoms, helping you take care of your guts for the rest of your life!