One in five Northern Americans has irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which makes it one of the most common disorders diagnosed today. Irritable bowel syndrome usually hits the person around age 20 and is more common among women than in men. Irritable bowel syndrome is actually a disease, although doctors consider it a functional disorder. However, even though the syndrome can cause considerable...

Researchers from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have found that hypnotherapy can be used to effectively treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 70 per cent of cases. Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional bowel disorder, which causes abdominal pain, and in some...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS for short, is a particularly unpleasant condition caused by a number of symptoms affecting the area around the bowel, gut or intestines. It is a condition that cannot be completely cured, but it can be effectively treated and kept at bay to a large extent. Let's first of all discuss the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. Every individual is different...

There are a large number of diseases of the bowl and they all have different symptoms, but there is one constant with all of these diseases and that is inflammation of the bowl. The digestive system is actually a very complex organ that has a finely tuned team of mechanical reactions mixed with chemicals. The team goes into action once food enters the mouth where it mixes with saliva,...

Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Irritable bowel syndrome* (IBS) is a "syndrome," meaning a group of symptoms. The most common symptoms of IBS are abdominal pain or discomfort often reported as cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and/or constipation. IBS affects the colon, or large bowel, which is the part of the digestive tract that stores stool.In gastroenterology, irritable bowel...