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If diarrhea is your main symptom and primary reason for doing GAPS, then you need to pay special attention to what helps and what triggers you. Following GAPS resolves this in the majority of people over time. In some people with GAPS diarrhea is combined with fecal compaction, which means the bowel is full of old hard feces that are glued to the colon wall. However, some people still have fecal compaction after following the diet for a year or longer, which can be confirmed with an x-ray.
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Even though you may pass loose or soft stools every day, this is actually a combination of constipation and diarrhea. The compacted feces produce toxins, causing the bowel to draw water and salt, resulting in loose stools. In these cases a course of enemas or colonic hydrotherapy can be very helpful. You might be triggered by FODMAPS foods, oxalate dumping, an allergen, or it may just be a detox reaction. The natural defense reaction of our intestinal tract is to pull salt and water into the bowel to cause diarrhea in an attempt to move the toxins out of our body quickly. It might even come out in strange shapes like ribbons, due to squeezing past the hard masses. By Jennifer Scribner on January 21, 2015 in Digestion, GAPS Diet.
