"And then you start to loose it because you think about Nutella": The significance of food for people with inflammatory bowel disease - a qualitative study.

Background: Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease strongly believe that food or certain food products heavily influence the symptoms or even trigger acute flare-ups. Unfortunately, there is no generalizable information for these patients, and therefore no effective diet has been identified to date.

Methods: The narrative interviews we used for this study provide the basis for the German website www.