A food diary for Crohn's disease

Crohn's disease can affect any part of the digestive tract, and how food plays into it tends to be very individual. Writing down what you ate and how your body reacted gives you concrete information to take to your healthcare team.

What to track with Crohn's disease

Besides meals, it helps to log symptoms with severity and the Bristol stool scale, medication doses and when each flare starts and ends. Lab results such as fecal calprotectin go into charts, so you can see how they change between appointments.

Flares and food

When you mark a flare, the report shows the foods eaten in the three days before it. Over time you can see whether a food keeps turning up before flares and bring that to your doctor or dietitian, instead of drawing conclusions on your own.

Reports for your appointments

The report lines up food with symptoms over the period you pick, including since the last appointment. Download it as PDF or CSV, send it by email or schedule it to go out weekly or monthly.

What you can log in FoodHarbor

Everything goes into one diary that the family can follow together.

• Meals and snacks with the time, foods and portions
• Symptoms with severity and the Bristol stool scale, and how the day went
• Medications and every dose taken
• Flares, with the day they started and ended
• Lab results such as fecal calprotectin, each with its own chart
• Medical appointments, the next one included, and what the doctor said
• Weight and height, with WHO percentiles for children and teenagers
• Meal reminders on your phone, and logging without an internet connection