Irritable Bowel Syndrome Cause
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is described as a gastrointestinal disorder identified by symptoms such as stomach pain, altered bowel function and varying complaints of flatulence, bloating, constipation or diarrhea. Eating healthy and making sure you avoid foods that upset your tummy may help manage these symptoms.
IBS is believed to be due to the unbalanced function of the muscles of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract or the nerves controlling the organs. The nervous control of the gastrointestinal tract, however, is complicated. A particular cause may be diagnosed as Crohn's disease which is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. Most commonly it affects the lower part of the small intestine. It can occur in people of all age groups. Like ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease can be both painful and incapacitating, causing severe bouts of watery or bloody diarrhea and tummy pain.
For many people, managing your food intake reduces IBS symptoms. Before changing your diet, keep journals noting the foods that seem to cause distress. Then discuss your findings with your doctor. You may want to consult a dietician who can help you make changes to your diet. For example, if dairy products cause your symptoms to flare up, you can try eliminating those foods. You might be able to tolerate some dairy products such as yoghurt better than others because it may contains bacteria that supply the enzyme needed to digest lactose. If you need to avoid dairy products, be sure to get sufficient nutrients in the foods you substitute, or take oral supplements.
IBS symptoms may be controlled by making some changes in your diet. Keeping a food and fluid record is a practical way to keep an eye on symptoms. You can also note of other factors, such as stress, that have an effect on the symptoms.
Drinking plenty of water (six to eight glasses) a day is important, especially if you have diarrhea. Drinking fizzy beverages may result in gas and cause tenderness. Chewing gum and eating too quickly can lead to the digesting of air, which could lead to gas. Large meals can cause cramping and diarrhea, so eating smaller meals more often, may help irritable bowel symptoms. Eating meals that are low in fat and high in carbs such as pasta, rice, whole-grain breads and cereals, fruits, and vegetables may help.
As its name indicates, IBS is -a combination of signs and symptoms. It has been shown to lead to a serious disease, including cancer. Through the years, IBS has been called by many names, among them colitis, mucous colitis, spastic colon, or spastic bowel. However, no link has been established between IBS and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
Researchers argue that the cause of this disease is abnormalities in the function of the motor nerves. For example, uneven commands through the motor nerves might create a painful spasm of the gut muscles. Still others argue that unusually functioning processing centres are responsible for irritable bowel diseases because they misread the normal sensations or send unreliable commands to the organ.
Research has established that individuals can produce larger amounts of gas than individuals without IBS, and the gas may be retained longer in the small intestine. Among patients with IBS, abdominal size can increase increases over the day causing extreme discomfort, and reaching a maximum in the evening before returning to normal levels overnight. In individuals without IBS, there is no increase in abdominal size during the day.
Controversy exists over the influence of dietary sugars and poor digestion and/or poor absorption. Poor digestion of lactose is very common as is poor absorption of fructose, due to the production of gas from the increased formation of gas.
Although these abnormalities in production and transport of gas could give rise to some of the symptoms of IBS, much more work will need to be done before the role of intestinal gas in IBS is clear.
It has been researched that dietary fat in healthy individuals can and does aggravate the symptoms of Irritable bowel syndrome as food and gas moves more slowly than normal through the stomach and small intestines. So if individuals suffer from this condition they may respond to a reduced intake of Dietary fat.
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