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Irritable Bowel syndrome
Background
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a painful and disabling abdominal illness, characterised by frequent attacks of abdominal pain or discomfort associated with disturbances in defecation (voiding of waste matter or feces from the bowel), which might be either constipation, diarrhoea or a combination of the two.