Quality Care for IBS: Are we any closer?
In April (IBS Awareness Month) 2015, The IBS Network of patients and health care professionals initiated a campaign for improvements in health care professional training and services that included the … Continue reading
Fear of Flying
How to avoid the discomfort of airline flights if you have IBS. Last week, Adrian wrote: I love going to Africa for wildlife safari and photography, but each time my … Continue reading
Make your own delicious Spelt sourdough loaf.
A tutorial by Dr Joan Ransley Making bread is a deeply satisfying and mindful activity that relaxes and calms. Spelt bread has a beautiful open texture, a wonderful nutty … Continue reading
Bread and Bloating
Of all the foods that are claimed to be responsible for bloating and other symptoms of IBS, bread would appear to be the most common. No fewer that 50% of … Continue reading
Bile acid malabsorption; an unrecognised cause of IBS-diarrhoea
Bile acids are nature’s laxatives. So said Dr Alan Hoffman, for many years a world expert on bile acids. So might malabsorption of bile acids be a major factor in … Continue reading
IBS and Dementia
And just when you thought things could not get any worse, a study was published last week showing that having IBS could cause you to be more at risk from … Continue reading
‘Twas the clinic before Christmas
It had been a long clinic. It was already six o’clock and I wanted to go home when the nurse came in and said she was sorry but I had … Continue reading
Don’t let IBS wreck your Christmas.
It’s the silly season again! We will all be tempted to eat far too much, drink ourselves daft and collapse in front of the telly. And then there’s the relatives. … Continue reading
The patient’s story and the politics of representation.
Fifty years ago, medical students were always instructed to record a good history. This was a story of ‘the patient’. It could take anything from half an hour to an … Continue reading
Perchance to dream; sleep and the nightmare of IBS.
Many years ago, in one of the last projects my research group conducted, we found that people with the erratic bowels of IBS also had erratic eating patterns, erratic moods … Continue reading
The Sensitive Gut 