What is Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis (UC) for dummies would be described like this...
 Every time you eat something your intestines can not digest you feel like crap with stomach pains and bloody, diarrhea for days.

The more accurate description of Ulcerative Colitis is
Inflammation of the walls of the bowel accompanied by the formation of ulcers in the intestines.
This is a inflammatory disease, something that will not ever fully be cured unless you have you colon removed.
Basically every time you eat something your body can not digest properly your body is attacking itself trying to warn off that "foreign object"

Some say that UC is genetic and it is something that is always in your body but just appears to get worse and worse over time.
This disease is very individualized for every person. There is no specific diet to follow to help you get better. Foods that I may not be able to digest other UC people are okay with eating.
Just for example my "trigger" foods are
Lettuce
Steak
Watermelon
Carbonated beverages
Popcorn
Dairy Products mostly just milk
For myself and most UC people all vegetables have to be cooked
It is suggest for most UC people to not have high fibrous foods
Sometimes after diagnosed with UC your GI will refer you to a dietitian to help you out also.
For myself these are foods that if I eat them I will go into a "flare up" meaning I will have bloody diarrhea and stomach pains for a couple of days until the formed ulcers heal. The goal is to stay in "remission" so avoiding these foods is critical to making me feel better.

I, along with a lot of others effected by UC need the help of medication. I have gone through in a previous post about my history with medication. But to help stay in the "remission "period medication can help. This is also very patient personalized, I did not respond to basic pill form medication to help keep my UC at bay, so now I have to be on a heavier medication to help me.

I would suggest being in communication with your GI doctor. UC is very individualized and only you and your doctor can figure out what is right to help you.
When I got diagnosed my doctor gave my Lialda and said here you go this will help and did not even explain what UC was, so I had to do a lot of research for myself.