Artificial Sweeteners and Incontinence

I have never made the connection.

However, I have noticed when I have a drink from a vendor and it has ice I have the issue of incontinence at night.  So I will order my drinks with no ice.

The sugar alcohols do this (to some degree) to most people, with or without a colon.

Hi Scott

I never had a problem with incontinence prior to bowel surgery. 

Can't say about others but sugar specially artificial ones kill my pouch like no other food . Anything too sweet I get instant diaroehha. I take small amounts in my tea/coffee now and some maltodextrin in my whey but thats a small amount.

Lclassen, I posted about my experiences with this recently.  According to the fodmap diet xylitol etc is a polyol.  I like to work backwards a little, so I looked for other foods high in polyolys and found they also upset me.  I avoided polyolys and saw a real improvement.

If you have real concerns you should probally try the FODMAP diet properly.. you can get apps on your phone (I use a free android one) which is really useful, you can apply filters to remove the types of foods you want to avoid (mine is set to remove all polyolys)

The really good news is that is not hard to avoid polyolys.. peaches, avocado, sweetcorn, sweeteners are the things I miss most, but I can do without them.  

If you give up sweetener, please try to moderate your intake of sugar too. That has its own issues . The RDA for sugar is 35g, which is fine if you eat normally and don't do fizzy drinks or confectionary.  

Hope that helps