An estimated 10 to 20 percent of the population suffers from a complex of gastrointestinal symptoms that are collectively referred to as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects women three times more commonly than men, and has historically been considered a “wastebasket†diagnosis for patients with functional gastrointestinal (GI) complaints when no...
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a poorly understood cluster of gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms that typically includes varying degrees of abdominal bloating and crampy pain, diarrhea, constipation, and the frequent discharge of mucus-like stools from the rectum.  At any one time, an estimated 10 to 20 percent of all Americans chronically experience one or...
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