Essay On Irritable Bowel Syndrome

IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME IBS is a common disorder that affects the large intestine. Other names for this disease are spastic colon, nervous colon, and colitis. Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea is sometimes referred to as ISB-D and the patient would experience loose watery stools at least 25% of the time and hard or lumpy stools less than 25% of the time. Diarrhea is one of the most associated with IBS. There are also other types of IBS but to be diagnosed it would determine on the types of symptoms that the person is experiencing.
IBS-C is irritable bowel syndrome with constipation; a person with IBS-C would have hard lumpy stools at least twenty five percent of the time and loose or watery stools less than twenty five percent of the time. IBS-M is irritable bowel syndrome mixed; there would be hard or lumpy stools or loose or watery stools at least twenty five percent of the time. And there is IBS-U which is unsubtyped irritable bowel syndrome; experiencing hard or lumpy stools less than twenty five percent of the time and loose watery stools at least twenty five percent of the time.
In a study of 350 people who have IBS-D, 1 in 3 reported loss of bowel control or soiling. The pain/ discomfort are caused from the frequent changes in bowel habits. Change in the frequency of bowel movements, a change in the appearance and or texture of the stools, pain or discomfort that goes away after one or more bowel movements are also signs that one may be affected by