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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is said to affect between 2.5 and 5 million people in the UK alone. Why such high numbers? We’ll discuss the numbers along with talking about how to treat IBS. It turns out that treatment and cause have a lot in common and if you suffer from IBS you don’t have to put up with it any more.

The numbers of IBS suf­ferers are directly related to the diets of pro­cessed foods that are striped of fiber and nutrition that many of us are eating these days. If you suffer from irritable bowel disease, what is your diet like? Do you get lots of green leafy vegetables, fruits, and other fiber rich foods everyday? Or like many of us is your life so hurried that you skip breakfast, then maybe grab a sandwich for lunch and perhaps some take away or a frozen dinner at night? Think on these things, and on how many of us eat this way and you will begin to understand the high numbers of victims suf­fering from irritable bowel syndrome.

Yes, believe it or not, the typical British diet is responsible for a great many civil­ization created diseases and con­ditions such as IBS.

IBS is often accom­panied by con­stipation. Both of these con­ditions are greatly helped by proper amounts of fiber from food in your diet. Fiber is stripped out of so many of the con­venience foods that we consume and it is no wonder that these con­ditions are plaguing our society. If you have IBS you may be tempted to take fiber sup­plements, these may cause you to increase your reg­u­larity but they do not help with the bloating and stomach pain. You need good fiber from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Likewise lax­atives are more harmful than helpful. Lax­atives are not intended for long term use and while they may help out with the occa­sional round of con­stipation they will do you more harm than good if you suffer from IBS and con­stipation: you must get to a healthy, fiber rich diet.

On the other hand IBS may be accom­panied by diarrhea. Whether you realize it or not the same things that help IBS and con­stipation will also help with IBS and diarrhea. It is counter-​​intuitive as so many truths are, but getting to the diet you need (fibre rich) allows your bodies powerful healing mech­anisms to work. The nutrients in a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and other high fiber food just cannot be gotten anywhere else.

A variety of medicines may be pre­scribed for IBS including, amazingly, anti-​​depressants. And doctors may pre­scribe dif­ferent anti-​​depressants depending on whether your IBS is accom­panied by con­stipation or diarrhea. It is an insane trend in medicine to just pre­scribe for symptoms. Sure people are slow to change bad habits such as their diets but most people are never even given the information that will truly solve their health problems.

One note about increasing fiber in your diet: begin gradually. Perhaps a salad at lunch and/​or dinner. Perhaps an apple at night. Take it slow as your body will need to acclimate itself to the new healthier diet.

Along with increasing your fibre drink lots of water and avoid excessive fats. This doesn’t mean avoid meat, it means don’t fry everything, don’t have a bag of crisps everyday. Other foods to avoid are soft drinks and anything else con­taining high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is showing up in all kinds of food and your body just cannot properly digest it.

However the most effective treatment available if some kind of psy­cho­logical therapy such as Hyp­no­therapy which will help you not only manage the symptoms but it many case all but irradicate the problem alto­gethger. You can find lots of information at Hypnotherapyclinic.info or here on FixY­ourIBS.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​02-​​15 15:32:07.