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Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a condition that affects about 20% of the population. It causes bowel upset with a range of symptoms from diarrhoea to constipation, bloating, abdominal pain, backache, nausea, vomiting and fatigue. It can be caused by food intolerance, stress or have no known specific cause.
N.B. If your symptoms include passing of slime, bleeding or weight loss or have been slowly worsening without relief you must see your doctor for a firm diagnosis.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Drugs for diarrhoea include Lomotil and Imodium; drugs for sickness include Dicyclomine and Stemetil. These all have side effects and only suppress the symptoms, they do not cure the underlying cause.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
| Alexander Technique |
| Biofeedback |
| BodyTalk |
| Bowen Technique |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine |
| Hypnosis |
| Kinesiology |
| Massage |
| Naturopathy |
| Nutritional Therapy |
| Shiatsu |
| Western Herbal Medicine |
| Yoga |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mr. | Kenneth | Yu | New South Wales | Australia | |
| Mrs. | Tanja | Ben-Meir | Victoria | Australia | |
| Mr. | Ian Paul | Sharp | Ceredigion | Great Britain | |
| Mrs. | Elisabeth M. | Flynn | Devon | Great Britain | |
| Miss. | Janine | Fahri | London | Great Britain | |
| Dr. | Claire | Mercier | Surrey | Great Britain | |
| Miss. | Ellie | Son | Auckland | New Zealand | |
| Ms. | Lu | Miln | Canterbury | New Zealand | |
| Ms. | Margaret | Olmsted | California | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Ana | Poirier | California | United States of America | |
| Mrs. | Baerbel | Froehlin | Colorado | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Ellen | Kratka | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Dr. | Peter | Zilahy | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Mary | Bardis | Florida | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Pamela | Bellamy | Georgia | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Natural Cures for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Irritable Bowel Information and Support Association of Australia | Australia | National |
| Action Against Allergy | Great Britain | National |
| Allergy UK | Great Britain | National |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome Network | Great Britain | National |
| International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders | United States of America | National |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome Self Help and Support Group | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
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