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Understanding Bowel Disorders
Apparently mother was right about that apple a day. For good and ill, what we eat and how we live are central to the onset and control of irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Support
In Canada, six million people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and currently its symptoms are second only to the common cold as the most frequent cause of absenteeism from work and school. IBS is commonly characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel function such as constipation and diarrhea. Some people have mild symptoms, while others have chronic, disabling symptoms.
A Symbiotic Relationship
The body's gastrointestinal tract or gut is central to maintaining health as it is this set of organs that digests food to properly nourish the body. Good digestion requires normal flora (good bacteria) and a healthy pH balance in the gut.
Irritable Bowel-Irritable Person
What is it? Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a "functional bowel disorder. Unlike inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), which may have similar symptoms, when IBS patients are, probed, scoped, and X-rayed, nothing appears abnormal about the structure of the digestive tract.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of the large intestine that's characterized by abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, flatulence, nausea and varying degrees of anxiety or depression. IBS has been referred to in the past as nervous indigestion, spastic colitis, mucous colitis and intestinal neurosis..
Herbs and Exercise Ease Cystitis
Dr Leyton:Six years ago I had a bad bout of diarrhea after having a barium enema and sigmoid colonoscopy. I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome.One doctor advised me to take Metamucil.
Calm Your Irritable Bowel
You're only minutes away from your business presentation and your nervous butterflies have changed into those horribly familiar cramping pains in your abdomen.

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