Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) also known as spastic colon or colitis affects 15 – 20% of the population – predominantly women. The severity of IBS symptoms changes from person to person and from time to time. For some people it restricts their movements to such a degree that they have trouble making travel plans. For others, it’s a sporadic situation where the symptoms come and go, with no discernable reason, and for others, it’s a low lying, ongoing manageable but painful situation.
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Diet Sheets For Ibs – Common Diets For Irritable Bowel Syndrome
October 26th, 2011 
Admin How quite a few diet sheets for IBS have you been through? Have you found that all the widespread diets for irritable bowel syndrome are just contradictions of every other? Me too. In the medical world irritable bowel syndrome is usually the diagnosis given when all “real” stomach problems have been ruled out. When the doctor does all the appropriate tests and the results are inconclusive, the simple thing to do is to diagnose IBS.
Depending on the type of IBS you have, you ought to eat a high fibre diet or you ought to eat a low fibre diet. It’s almost laughable. Except that it isn’t funny. Millions of people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and the frustrations of attempting to locate the appropriate diet or medication or both typically only serve to make the already painful and occasionally embarrassing symptoms even worse.
How Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diagnosed?
October 23rd, 2011 Admin The diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome [IBS] is made by your medical doctor mainly on the basis of what symptoms you are experiencing. Typical symptoms are bloating, abdominal pain/cramps, constipation and diarrhoea. Typical causes are a bad diet, food poisoning, a prolonged course of antibiotics or an operation around the pelvic area.
Following on from your story of your symptoms, the doctor may physically examine you. This may be an examination of the stomach area where the doctor will push along the large intestinal wall, to understand how tender the region is. Your doctor may also take your blood pressure or measure your heart rate.
Your doctor may refer you to a Gastroenterologist for a rectal examination. This is where the Gastroenterologist inserts a flexible tube with a light inside it into your rectum. The allows the Gastroenterologist to see the lining of the bowel. The Gastroenterologist may examine part of the colon or the entire length [about 4 feet]. In addition the Gastroenterologist may take a sample of the bowel wall called a biopsy to make sure that the bowel is truly normal. This is one way for example to test for gluten intolerance.
