I don't know what is going on with me. Since two days, I've had such severe burning pain in the intestines - large and small. Meaning that the front of my belly is burning all along the colon and in the small of my back, behind, there is burning there too.

Normally my diet is very bland, boiled vegetables; boiled meat - some eggs.

I've eaten more acidic, \"warming\" foods in the past couple days, garlic, guacamole, black tea.

It's like a huge mass of acidity coming down from the stomach and seeping into the intestines. But also, there is a lot of very hot gas.

I have taken aloe gel (straight from the leaf), slippery elm, golden seal, boswellia to try and cool this burning down. Nothing doing.

I haven't been able to sleep for two nights because of this burning.

Is my diet too acidifying? (meat and vegetables for a million years) Or is there infection in the small intestines?

By the way, we don't have access to these tests here in Canada - CDSA, etc.

Hi Dechen,

A quick guess from experience would be that the garlic is the problem - especially if you have been eating any raw.

If you already have inflammation of the GI tract as you will with your health problems garlic will be EXTREMELY irritating.

I was told to eat raw garlic for its antifungal properties by a naturopath many years ago and because my duodenum is inflammed due to toxic bile from liver toxicity the garlic caused excruciating pain of a kind I'd never known before.

Even cooked garlic, spices or acidic foods can cause similar problems so be careful with these. Guacamole and black tea shouldn't be a problem.

Oh and remember that acidifying foods such as meat are actually alkaline. They only cause acidification in the body once they have been digested, absorbed and metabolised. Meat passing through your intestines is not acidic and will not cause irritation for that reason. Equally, the opposite can be said of citrus fruits which cause the body to become more alkaline but are acidic themselves and in the intestines.