IBS Relief

Take control of IBS so IBS doesn't take control of your life IBS Relief, Second Edition is an extensively updated, hands-on guide to help you manage your symptoms and limit the frequency, intensity, and duration of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) episodes. Written by a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychologist, this guide gives you a multidisciplinary approach encompassing every proven strategy for managing IBS, including new drug therapies and stress management techniques. This book won't confuse you with medical terminology--IBS is confounding enough. Instead, the book contains questionnaires, lists, diaries, stress and food tolerance tests, and other tools to help you determine the pattern of your symptoms, identify triggers, and take appropriate action. You'll learn how to manage your problem based on your specific symptoms. Approaches include: * A three-step process for managing irritable bowel through healthy eating * Recommended diet adjustments for the six most common IBS symptoms * Three stress-management strategies, including specific techniques for calming the body, calming the mind, and confronting stress * Three steps to controlling pain This book gives you the tools, the techniques, and the information you need to make specific lifestyle and diet changes that can bring real relief.

Take control of IBS soIBS doesn't take control of your lifeIBS Relief, Second Edition is an extensively updated, hands-onguide to help you manage your symptoms and limit the frequencyintensity, and duration of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) episodes.Written by a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychologist, this guidegives you a multidisciplinary approach encompassing every provenstrategy for managing IBS, including new drug therapies and stressmanagement techniques.This book won't confuse you with medical terminology--IBS isconfounding enough. Instead, the book contains questionnaireslists, diaries, stress and food tolerance tests, and other tools tohelp you determine the pattern of your symptoms, identify triggersand take appropriate action. You'll learn how to manage yourproblem based on your specific symptoms. Approaches include:* A three-step process for managing irritable bowel through healthyeating* Recommended diet adjustments for the six most common IBSsymptoms* Three stress-management strategies, including specific techniquesfor calming the body, calming the mind, and confrontingstress* Three steps to controlling painThis book gives you the tools, the techniques, and the informationyou need to make specific lifestyle and diet changes that can bringreal relief.

Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. What Is IBS?2. How Do I Know I Have Irritable Bowel?3. How the Gut Works, and Sometimes Doesnâ??t.4. What Causes Irritable Bowel?5. Want Relief? Start with Healthy Eating.6. Foods and Habits That Irritate.7. Healthy Eating Adjustments for Specific Symptoms.8. What Is Stress, and Does It Affect Irritable Bowel?9. Stress Management.10. What Do I Do about the Pain?11. Are You Ready? Making Change Happen.12. Irritable Bowel Is Not My Only Worry.13. Working with Your Doctor.14. Living with Irritable Bowel.Appendix: High-Fiber, Low-Fat Recipes.Index.