What you need to know about irritable bowel syndrome

As a digestive syndrome not only causes the body to decline, irritable bowel also causes the patient's spirit to be severely suppressed, which can lead to mental disorders.

Apr 14, 2022 - 14:21
What you need to know about irritable bowel syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome - many names
Irritable bowel syndrome (HCRKT) is a common digestive disorder. The name of this syndrome is still unfamiliar to many patients, but in fact it has been known for a long time, under many different names such as: irritable colon syndrome, spastic colon disease, HCRKT...

Although it is not contagious and does not lead to cancer, it is a frequently recurring disorder that affects the patient's quality of life (weakness, fatigue, irritability, etc.).
Medical treatment has so far been mainly symptom-based, but this syndrome has not been satisfactorily addressed. Therefore, both doctors and patients are easily discouraged, so the syndrome has more and more opportunities to "grow".

When modern life contributes to irritable bowel syndrome
Currently, an average of 15-20% of the world's population suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. However, as noted by many experts, the actual number of patients is much larger because only about 30% of patients go to the doctor. This problem is more common in women than men.

The main cause is that the patient is affected by foods such as milk, cheese, fried food, chocolate, beer, cabbage, beans, fish, crab, milk, fat, eggs... especially all kinds of food. food contaminated with chemicals.
Besides, psychological and emotional traumas (stress), nervous tension, physical fatigue, insomnia, anxiety... in modern life are also major causes of the disease.

Recorded in the course of treatment showed that HCRKT not only caused the patient to have difficulty in eating. Most patients have major effects on the nervous system that make the nervous state unstable, sensitive, or anxious.

Many people often have symptoms of nervousness, palpitations, excessive sweating of the limbs in winter, frequent urination at night, frequent insomnia and depression. In women, there may be dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders, weather headaches, hot flashes and dizziness.

Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms
of Irritable Bowel Syndrome usually cause digestive disorders, including:
Loose stools: Usually, they are loose stools 3-4 times a day, especially in the morning when they are new. wake up. This situation increases with anxiety and only decreases with rest. Each batch from a few days to a few weeks, several times a year. Symptoms usually appear right after eating fish, crab, snail, mussels, milk, butter... or after stress, fatigue, insomnia... Accompanied by abdominal pain or not.

At the same time, patients often feel aching or cramping pain, usually feel comfortable after defecation. Some people also feel uncomfortable pain in the anus, feel like they haven't finished their stool, sometimes have to sit for a long time even though the stool is loose. The stool is loose, but it can be hard at the beginning and then crushed. On the first day, the stools are broken, but the next times are mixed with mucus or all mucus. Especially the stools are never bloody (unless there are hemorrhoids).

Constipation: the patient may be constipated or defecate in small bands, or alternate between constipation and looseness, feeling that the bowel is not finished, after defecation, there is still the feeling of wanting to defecate.

Abdominal discomfort with a feeling of bloating or dull pain in the abdomen. The location of the pain is very erratic, can be pain in the pelvis or lower ribs, sometimes the pain spreads throughout the abdomen, but usually it is located along the colonic frame.
Flatulence usually occurs after half a meal. Bloating is often accompanied by abdominal bloating, sometimes the intestine is rolled into hard and painful segments, rubbed for a while or left spontaneously, or the hard segment moved to another place.

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