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Diverticulitis, also called colonic diverticulitis, is a gastrointestinal disease characterized by inflammation of abnormal pouches—diverticula—that can develop in the wall of the large intestine. [1] Symptoms typically include lower abdominal pain of sudden onset, but the onset may also occur over a few days. [1]
While a low-fiber diet is generally used for acute diverticulitis, the NIH guidelines recommend a high-fiber diet for patients with diverticulosis (a condition that may lead to diverticulitis). [17] A Mayo Clinic review from 2011 showed that a high-fiber diet can prevent diverticular disease.
If you’ve been diagnosed with diverticulitis, you'll need to follow a special diverticulitis diet. Here’s what that means.
Diverticulitis is defined as diverticular disease with signs and symptoms of diverticular inflammation. Clinical features of acute diverticulitis include constant abdominal pain, localized abdominal tenderness in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, fever and leukocytosis. [12]
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Fiber intake – although it is widely believed that low fiber diet is associated with diverticulosis and diverticular disease, recent studies have not confirmed the association but has shown that increased fiber intake reduces diverticular disease complications.
The Mayo Clinic diet is consistently ranked as one of the best diets according to U.S New and World Report's rankings, coming in fourth for the overall best diet in the 2022 rankings.
Segmental colitis associated with diverticulosis (SCAD) is a condition characterized by localized inflammation in the colon, which spares the rectum and is associated with multiple sac-like protrusions or pouches in the wall of the colon (diverticulosis).