IPhone sync apps with multiple iTunes accounts

I have a US iTunes account and a UK iTunes account because I am temporarily living in the UK. I am having a problem in which data associated with certain apps on my iPhone are periodically being deleted.  When I update apps, I am sometimes required to login to the US store and sometimes the UK store.  I think this depends on which store they were downloaded from but I don't know how to tell. I frequently get messages when I try to update that say I need to log into a different iTunes store to do the update.  I am guessing that if I were to update apps that were obtained from the UK store while logged in to the US store, it might replace the app with a different version and in the process wipe the associated data.  Is that possible?   Is there a better way to deal with the situation so this does not happen? 

Not sure. There have been other posts about syncing from two computers. Maybe you can find a previous post about this with a forum search.

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