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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300240203321

Autore

El-Salhy Magdy

Titolo

Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel / / by Magdy El-Salhy, Jan Gunnar Hatlebakk, Trygve Hausken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-15642-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 p.)

Disciplina

610

613

614.44

616.33

616.39

Soggetti

Gastroenterology 

Metabolic diseases

Health promotion

Gastroenterology

Metabolic Diseases

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This easy-to-read book gives sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) strategies to improve both their symptoms and quality of life. Up-to-date information about IBS is provided and developments in the understanding and management of IBS from the last decade are discussed, by authors who are gastroenterologists with long experience of working with IBS patients. Each chapter begins with a summary containing the most important points, and includes a large number of illustrations. Thus, the reader can obtain a quick overview by simply



reading the summary of each chapter and going through the illustrations; chapters of interest can be read in more detail when more time is available. Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel helps patients suffering from this disorder to manage it and to prevent it from interfering with their everyday activities.