IBS & Stress
(image thanks to etsu.edu) If you’ve been diagnosed with IBS, it’s likely that you have been advised to reduce your stress level. You may have been told to get regular exercise and adequate sleep,...
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Get Off Those Medications
The typical medical approach for treating IBS involves either doing nothing, or guessing at the problem and trying different medications. Many of the patients that come to the IBS Treatment Center have been on...
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5 Challenges to Detecting Your Own Food Allergy
Reason #1 One major obstacle to figuring out which foods are problematic is that, even on an elimination diet, you may not have truly eliminated all of your allergenic foods. Assumptions are often made...
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How IBS Can Cause Iron Deficiency and Anemia
Many patients who have digestive problems are also anemic due to low iron or low vitamin B12 levels. This problem causes fatigue, so it should be of interest to many people. Being anemic and...
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Gastroparesis Is Often Curable
Gastroparesis is a motility disorder that patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other digestive problems are sometimes given as a diagnosis, as noted in the journal Digestive and Liver Disease. Like irritable bowel...
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Abdominal Pain and the Emergency Room
If you have gone to the doctor or the emergency room for severe abdominal pain and have subsequently left the doctors office or ER without any answer for why you are in pain,...
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Understand What Causes Your Painful Constipation
The two major factors for defining constipation are the frequency of bowel movements and their firmness. One sign that your digestive system is functioning optimally is that you have at least one bowel...
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Stress Reduction
If you have been diagnosed with IBS, it is likely that you have been advised to reduce your stress level. You may have been told to get regular exercise and adequate sleep, and to...
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