Please dont listen to esther. Ive lived with this disease for many years and eating right has nothing to do with this disease. The only way to be cured is by having surgery. The cleft lift or open excision have a very high success rate. It doesnt matter what you eat. People that give misleading information like esther really piss me and many other pilonidal cyst suffers off. Please do your research and decide what type of surgery is best for you, because surgery unfortunately is the only cure. Unfortunately eating right will not cure this disease