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Provides information on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), also known as spastic colon, irritable colon, spastic bowel, or functional bowel syndrome. Includes the signs and symptoms, possible causes, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, often debilitating, functional gastrointestinal disease with symptoms that include abdominal pain, bloating, and altered bowel habits such as constipation or diarrhea, or alternating between the two stool consistency extremes.
Source: Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, often debilitating, gastrointestinal disease that causes abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Partly digested food normally leaves the stomach and passes into the small intestine and then into the large intestine. The large intestine makes food move with gentle squeezing motions. The large intestine is also called the large bowel or colon. In irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the intestines squeeze too hard or not hard enough and cause food to move too fast or too slowly through your system.
Source: The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an intestinal disorder that causes abdominal pain or discomfort, cramping or bloating, and diarrhea or constipation. Irritable bowel syndrome is a long-term but manageable condition.
Source: Government of British Columbia - Ministry of Health Services
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