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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.

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Medical text written January 2003 by Professor NW Read. Last updated January 2010 by Professor NW Read, Consultant Physician and Psycotherapist, Chairman of Trustees for the IBS Network.

 

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