Irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome: Introduction
Irritable bowel syndrome:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common
disorder of the intestines that leads to crampy pain, gassiness, bloating,
and changes in bowel habits. Some ... more about Irritable bowel syndrome.
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Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed....read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called ...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. ...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed
(it can, of course,...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer, colon cancer, irritable...read more »
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Prognosis for Irritable bowel syndrome
Prognosis for Irritable bowel syndrome:
Mostly good. Not usually serious or life-shortening although attacks are problematic and often recur.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common
disorder of the intestines that leads to crampy pain, gassiness, bloating,
and changes in bowel habits. Some people with IBS have constipation
(difficult or infrequent bowel movements); others have diarrhea (frequent
loose stools, often with an urgent need to move the bowels); and some
people experience both. Sometimes the person with IBS has a crampy urge to
move the bowels but cannot do so.
Through the years, IBS has been called by many names--colitis, mucous
colitis, spastic colon, spastic bowel, and functional bowel disease. Most
of these terms are inaccurate. Colitis, for instance, means inflammation
of the large intestine (colon). IBS, however, does not cause inflammation
and should not be confused with another disorder, ulcerative colitis.
(Source: excerpt from Irritable Bowel Syndrome: NIDDK)
IBS: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a problem
that affects mainly the bowel, which is also called the large intestine.
The bowel is the part of the digestive system that makes and stores stool.
The word syndrome means a group of symptoms. IBS is a syndrome because it
can cause several symptoms. For example, IBS causes cramping, bloating,
gas, diarrhea, and constipation.
(Source: excerpt from IBS: NIDDK)
Definitions of Irritable bowel syndrome:
A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clearcut etiology. This condition is characterized by chronic or recurrent ABDOMINAL PAIN, bloating, MUCUS in FECES, and an erratic disturbance of DEFECATION.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Irritable bowel syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Irritable bowel syndrome, or a subtype of Irritable bowel syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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