Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of organic disease. We present 2 cases where diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome occurred in association with earlier intestinal infection or antibiotic treatment. Both were successfully treated with instillation of an anaerobic cultivated human intes...

introduction: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a common gastrointestinal disorder in children that may lead to anxiety, frequent physician visits and school absenteeism. the aim of this study is to reviewe effects of probiotic for irritable bowel syndrome.   materials and methods: this study review articles about probiotic for irritable bowel syndrome in pubmed and google scholar.   results: m...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: symptoms consistent with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are common among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in remission phase, and clinicians have difficulties in interpreting such symptoms as an ongoing disease activity or a coexistent ibs. we investigated if the assessment of fecal calprotectin (...

BACKGROUND Prebiotic and probiotic therapies are new strategies that are being used to treat different gastrointestinal diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel diseases. AIMS Evaluating the effects of a symbiotic preparation on symptoms and colonic transit in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and significant bloating. METHODS We carried o...

OBJECTIVE Current treatment options for irritable bowel syndrome are limited and often poorly studied. A select few drugs have been studied in irritable bowel syndrome, and the number needed to treat is frequently used to assess the relative efficacy of these treatments. However, side effects are an important consideration in the clinical decision on which particular treatment to use. This stud...

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome is classified as a functional gastrointestinal disorder with the primary symptom of abdominal pain in conjunction with bloating and bowel movement disorder. It affects up to 15% of the world's population. Among its subtypes, the most common is diarrhoea predominant. However, the current treatment options for diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome have...

Irritable bowel syndrome is characterised by diverse symptoms including abdominal pain, altered bowel function (increased bowel frequency, constipation), bloating, abdominal distension, the sensation of incomplete evacuation, and the increased passage of mucus. No unifying hypothesis explains all these symptoms, and no single agent will alleviate all components of the symptom complex. The curre...