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This is not a real person. It is a 14-day diary we wrote, put through the same pipeline a customer gets, and published untouched. Every number below was counted from those 14 days.
Gut Report · 6 Jul to 19 Jul
Lactose-containing foods appear most often on days when gut symptoms were recorded in your diary.
- Days logged
- 14
- With symptoms
- 8
- Foods recorded
- 50
- Ingredients tracked
- 15
Suspect 1
lactose (milk, ice cream, soft cheese)
Across 14 days, you logged lactose (milk, ice cream, soft cheese) on 7 days; symptoms followed on 6 of them, and on 2 of the 7 days without it.
Symptoms were recorded on most days when lactose-containing foods appeared, and on far fewer days when they were absent. A diary shows association only, not proof that lactose is causing your symptoms.
Suspects 2 and 3
fructans (onion, garlic, wheat)
You logged fructans (onion, garlic, wheat) on 9 days; symptoms followed on 6 of them, and on 1 of the 5 days without it.
Fructan-containing foods were present on most symptom days and absent on most symptom-free days, making them a plausible contributor. This pattern is suggestive but a diary cannot confirm cause and effect.
GOS (beans, lentils, pulses)
You logged GOS (beans, lentils, pulses) on 4 days; symptoms followed within about 8 hours on 3 of them, and on 4 of the 10 days without it.
Symptoms occurred on some days when GOS foods were absent, which weakens the signal for this group. The association is weaker than for the other suspects, and a diary alone cannot rule it in or out.
Cleared
Things your diary does not blame.
eggs
You logged eggs on 4 days and symptoms followed on 0 of them.
Your next 10 days
The controlled test that proves or clears lactose (milk, ice cream, soft cheese).
- 1For the next 10 days, remove all lactose-containing foods from your diet. This means milk, ice cream and soft cheeses.
- 2Do not make other large changes to your diet at the same time, as this makes it harder to read the result.
- 3Continue logging everything you eat and drink, and record any symptoms each day, including days when you feel fine.
- 4After the 10 days are complete, reintroduce a normal portion of one lactose-containing food on a single day.
- 5Log what you ate and note any symptoms over the following 48 hours, recording the timing as precisely as you can.
- 6Bring your full log to your next appointment so a clinician can review the before, during and after picture together.
For your doctor
This report is based on 14 days of self-logged free-text food and symptom entries, which were then structured and analysed for co-occurrence patterns. The patient recorded symptoms on 8 of those 14 days. Lactose-containing foods showed the strongest co-occurrence with symptom days, followed by fructan-containing foods. This is patient-collected observational data and does not constitute a diagnostic test.
Open the printable versionHow this was counted
No number here was written by hand.
- A symptom counts when you rated it 4 out of 10 or worse. Anything milder is noise at this sample size.
- A food is credited when symptoms followed it on the same day, or the next morning for a late meal.
- Every suspect is compared against your days without it. A food you eat daily can never be a suspect, because there is nothing to compare.
- Confidence is shrunk when the sample is small, so 3 tidy days never beat 9 messy ones.
- This is your diary, not a test. It shows association, and the experiment above is how association becomes an answer.
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