Comments for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by Markus

Markus — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:39:14 +0000

I take Digestive Advantage pills for IBS from Gentech for my IBS. They work great. The cheapest place I have found to get them is Amazon.com. If you order them through amazon’s subscription service they deliver them with free shipping. I take 1 or 2 a day and usually with a meal. It initially takes about 2-3 weeks for this to get into your system before it starts to work. So you will not notice any benefits till after the 2 or 3 weeks. The other thing that helps is to get on an exercise routine. You have to do at least 30min of cardio everyday. Sweating will help to get the toxins out of your body that are causing the IBS symptoms. The last bit of advice would be to see a doctor about your systems and make sure its IBS and not something more serious.

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by manjushak

manjushak — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:26:21 +0000

Dear cj,i read about your problem.I am an ayurvedic doctor with training in yoga and reiki.I would like to know about your lifestyle and the way your day goes(Waking,eating,drinking, sleeping.emotions stress etc.)Knowing the exact nature of your symptoms,and bowels would also be helpful in guiding you
in the meanwhile try using the pulp of Aegel marmelos(raw) with sugar.Lick it 1 tsf at a time 3-4 times a day.Eat in small portions only when hungry.Try having buttermilk with asafoetida,cumin and coriander powders.You can contact me at mrkarkare@yahoo.com

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by Amy M welcomed twins 12-7-08

Amy M welcomed twins 12-7-08 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:04:54 +0000

Have you tried going gluten free to see if that helped? The probiotics people mentioned are a good idea, but make sure you get good ones. If they don’t have to be refrigerated, they’re not worth it. Go to the health food store and get a good brand in the fridge section. Jarrow, Now, Metagenics, Nature’s Way are all good brands to look for. Take them on an empty stomach several times a day. Avoid sugar always. Might want to try dairy free for a while and see if that makes a difference also. My brother has IBS severely and he can’t have any dairy, gluten or soy. There’s a really good website http://www.earthclinic.com that has wonderful info and natural remedies for almost anything.
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/IBS.html
That’s a link for their IBS page. I cured my recurrent pancreatitis and non-specific colitis with the info I found there. Everyone’s body is different so what works for one person may not work for another. I try things until I find what works. Dairy and gluten may be fine for you, just try different things. That site is full of user feedback so you read testimonials from people that wrote what worked or didn’t work for them. Good luck to you. That website changed my life.

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by Nall

Nall — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:23 +0000

Also believe it or not, if you don’t have insurance to go to the doctor. If your willing, roll all natural tobacco (with out all the additives and what not in it. And then smoke one a day, no more, no less.

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by oldtimekid2

oldtimekid2 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:13:00 +0000

It’s not an herb specifically, but have you tried Probiotics? I’ve done a lot of research on IBS because both my mother and brother have it and they have both seen HUGE benefits from taking a good probiotic daily. They have both independently told me that they could easily notice when they missed a few days of the Probiotics (like when they ran out or forgot).

It’s also common to develop irregularity after taking antibiotics for the same reason, but the Probiotics are the beneficial bacteria that lives in your intestinal tract and helps your body absorb the nutrients in your intestinal tract, which helps regularity.
I’d recommend getting a good probiotic with at least 3-5 strains and at least 4-6 billion viable organisms per dose if not more… you may want to try a higher dose at first to replenish everything right away, too. Give it a try for just 1 month and I’m willing to bet you’ll notice a huge difference even within the first couple weeks. Oh, and expect loose stools for the first day or two if you’ve had antibiotics before… it’s perfectly normal as your body’s way of trying to balance itself out and clears up within a day or so.
Good luck and I hope I helped!

Comment on Q & A: What are the best herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome? (IBS)? by Tink

Tink — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:58:16 +0000

I suggest you google heathers tummy care and check out that site, and I would take a probiotic with a high count of multiple strains…

Comment on What are probiotics? its achievements and problems? Health risks associated with probiotic therapy? by Weise Ente

Weise Ente — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:52:50 +0000

Probiotics are harmless commensals. There aren’t any safety risks. You could guzzle liters of them and nothing would happen.

However, they are being used for things the evidence does not support. They are great for repopulating your intestine after inflammation or antibiotics, but other than that the evidence is weak.

They are quickly becoming a panacea in alt. med. communities and are advertised as being able to cure just about anything including the ever mythical yeast overgrowth.

Comment on What are probiotics? its achievements and problems? Health risks associated with probiotic therapy? by Lethe

Lethe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:07:20 +0000

Probiotics sold are either one bacteria (Lactobacillus acidophilus) or a combination of several (L. acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum and Bifidobacterium lactis) in capsule form. You are correct, these bacteria are naturally occurring, but in the intestines. They facilitate proper digestion and absorption of nutrients and prevent the buildup of acids or mycotoxins by Candida Albicans (a yeast organism), also naturally occurring in the body.

Usually a probiotic is used during the course of antibiotics. As the name implies, antibiotics kill organisms that have invaded your body and made you ill. The adverse side effect of this is that it does not discriminate between the “good” and the “bad” microorganisms in your body and create an imbalance in your digestive system. Probiotics have also been used to treat oral thrush and vaginal yeast infections, both caused by an overgrowth of the Candida Albicans yeast.

The organisms found in probiotic capsules are found in a variety of dairy products such as cultured yogurt and raw milk, but it is more convenient to take the capsules.

If you are healthy and want to maintain good digestive health taking lower doses of a probiotic is not harmful. As with any treatment or medicine, prudence is good and more is not better.

Please refer to the studies below from PubMed which is an international clearing house for medical studies on a variety of topics. There are many studies there regarding the use of probiotics to help with your question.

Take care.

Comment on What percentage of U.S. women diagnosed with endometriosis or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is? by Erin

Erin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:33:47 +0000

Endometrosis can go misdiagnosed as ISB. It happend to me. I believe it is 1 out of every 5 women have endo

Comment on May be irritable bowel syndrome? by aanglea

aanglea — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:01:51 +0000

sure -avoid all cow’s milk products, drink lotsa water, increase your fiber & probiotics intake, stay away from processed foods, keep a food diary & meet with a GI doctor and nutritionist.