This book provides up to date information about IBS and its developments in the last decade and provides ways of controlling IBS based on the authors’ long experience in treating IBS patients. Although IBS is a tortuous disorder and interferes with the patients’ daily activities, it does not develop into a serious disease or kill its sufferer. Understanding and learning ways of controlling IBS does not only help patients to lead normal lives, but also enables them to help their children and closest relatives.
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1. Irritable bowel syndrome: what is it?.- 2. The digestive tract and how it works.- 3. The cause of irritable bowel syndrome.- 4. How is irritable bowel syndrome diagnosed?.- 5. Treatment options without medication.- 6. Treatment options involving medication.- 7. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Magdy El-Salhy is Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the School of Medicine, University of Bergen and is a consultant gastroenterologist at Stord Hospital, Norway. Professor El-Salhy’s research field for the last 40 years has been the neuroendocrine system of the gastrointestinal tract, from basic science to clinical applications. During the last 10 years he has focused his research on irritable bowel syndrome. Jan Gunnar Hatlebakk is a consultant gastroenterologist at Haukeland University Hospital, Professor of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition at University of Bergen Medical School, Norway, and head of the National Center for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Professor Hatlebakk’s research interests have included functional gastrointestinal disorders as well as gastroesophageal reflux and gastrointestinal motility disorders. Trygve Hausken is Professor of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and head of the gastroenterology section as well as a consultant gastroenterologist at Haukeland University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway. He completed his Ph D (Medicine) in 1992 and has been a specialist in gastroenterology at Haukeland University Hospital since 1989.
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