Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel

• Main Authors: El-Salhy, Magdy (Author), Hatlebakk, Jan Gunnar (Author), Hausken, Trygve (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Gastroenterology.; Metabolic diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Metabolic Diseases.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

This easy-to-read book gives sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) strategies to improve both their symptoms and quality of life. Up-to-date information about IBS is provided and developments in the understanding and management of IBS from the last decade are discussed, by authors who are gast...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Irritable bowel syndrome: what is it?
• 2. The digestive tract and how it works
• 3. The cause of irritable bowel syndrome
• 4. How is irritable bowel syndrome diagnosed?
• 5. Treatment options without medication
• 6. Treatment options involving medication
• 7. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.