Medication

The type of medication recommended by your doctor will depend on your particular symptoms. When taking medication, the effect is often just temporary and there may be side effects which make your symptoms worse than they were in the first place.

Psychotherapy and/or anti-depressants might work for you, especially if your symptoms are severe and you are depressed by them. However, taking anti-depressants could be a dangerous way of covering up the symptoms instead of dealing with them. You may want to look at the other treatments before psychotherapy or anti-depressants.

Hypnotherapy is another treatment that might work for you. Research shows that it’s working well for some people.

Natural Treatments

Natural Treatments are usually longer lasting, although they take a little longer to work initially. Some of the natural treatments can relieve your symptoms for years, and maybe for the rest of your life.

Nutrition – Changing Your Diet

One of the most recommended treatments is to work out which food is irritating your bowel the most, and to stop eating that food. You may not have to stop eating specific foods forever. Once you have eliminated all those that bring on your symptoms, you can gradually introduce a little of each one ( one at a time ) to see if you react to it. This kind of treatment can take months or even years to get used to, and it’s difficult when going on holidays or just going out to dinner.

A Nutrition Supplement

Another way to eliminate the symptoms of IBS without having to stop eating certain foods, is to take a high quality liquid Nutrition Supplement. The extra vitamins and minerals can settle your tummy, and if mangosteen fruit is included in the supplement, this can reduce inflammation, diarrhea and pain. A supplement is a good solution if you want to continue eating all different types of food, and you want some relief from your symptoms within a shorter period of time.

Herbs

Other treatments include taking herbs such as peppermint that relaxes smooth muscles in your intestines. Before taking herbs check with your doctor in case they may interact or interfere with any other medications you may be taking.

Probiotics

Probiotics may assist you also. These are “good” bacteria that normally live in your intestines and can be found in certain foods such as yoghurt and nutritional supplements. Studies on people taking Probiotics for IBS have shown that they can decrease problems caused by IBS.

Chiropractic Adjustments

Chiropractic adjustments may assist you. There is evidence to support that certain cases of IBS result from the malfunction of nerves that control the gastrointestinal system and/or the immune system. So, the adjustments will assist in healing the nerves, and therefore remove the symptoms of IBS.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture may be the treatment for you. It is being used successfully by some people to relax the muscle spasms and improve bowel function.

Choose a Treatment for you

So, the next step for you is to choose an IBS Treatment that you will assist you. I know that when you do find one, your life will be so much more fun.

Julieanne is now completely free from those embarrassing and uncomfortable symptoms of IBS. If you know someone who would like to be free of those symptoms also, please direct him or her to the following web page for the IBS Treatment she takes.

This syndrome is very common and can prevent people from being involved in social and sporting activities, and causes many work absences. It is a very uncomfortable, painful and embarrassing thing to have. Of course, before you try out things to relieve your symptoms, check with your doctor to make sure you do have IBS and not some other illness.

There are quite a few different schools of thought in regard to the best diet. Here is one that may assist you. Stop all dairy foods, sugary foods and yeast ( found in bread and other foods that come from the bakery). Yeast is in beer also. Eat lots of green fruit and vegetables. Lean meat, fish and chicken is okay to eat also.

The following drink will make sure you have lots of green food. Make this for yourself in a blender. From the fruit and vegetable market, buy every green fruit, salad and vegetable you can find. Things like:

=> celery, => parsley, => baby spinach, => broccoli,

=> zucchini, => kiwi fruit, => bok choy, => avocado

Throw all your green foods into the blender, then add a little fresh pineapple to make it taste sweet. Add a little water if there are too many dry foods in the blender. Drink your “green drink” once or twice a day and it should assist your digestive system.

The above diet was the one I used for a number of years, and if I spent the day drinking and eating the above ( and not eating the stuff I shouldn’t eat), my day was okay.

However, as you can imagine and may already know yourself, it was not much fun for me making “green” drinks and not being able to eat all the things I wanted to when I went out for dinner. And, if I did eat the “wrong” thing when I out for dinner, I usually ended up having a very uncomfortable time, and had to excuse myself to go for a walk or lie down in the car.

Many people are finding that a good quality nutritional supplement can relieve the symptoms of IBS. Perhaps it’s because the digestive system needs more of a specific nutrient or is not getting that nutrient at all. Some people find that when taking a dietary supplement, they don’t experience any discomfort at all.

For many years in Asian countries, the mangosteen was commonly used for treatments ranging a full spectrum of health concerns: inflammation, diarrhea, parasites, wounds, skin infections, burns, pain and so on. So, eating the mangosteen fruit or taking a mangosteen supplement can also alleviate your discomfort and pain of IBS.

If you do choose to take a high quality nutritional supplement, I recommend that you take it for at least one month to give your body a chance to catch up on all the nutrients it requires. If you’ve had IBS symptoms for a long time, your body might need a longer time than a month.

In my experience, Natural remedies such as supplements sometimes take longer to work than medicines take. However, natural remedies usually last for a much longer time than medicines because with the right nutrients, your body is getting what it needs. So, taking a nutrition supplement can solve the inconvenience and embarrassment (when going out) of having to diet for IBS.

Julieanne used to experience the symptoms of IBS, and now she takes a good nutrition supplement. If you would like more information about the one she takes, go to the following page to learn about another alternative to a diet for IBS