Irritable
Bowel Syndrome Treatment
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatments
Many irritable bowel syndrome treatments mirror IBS preventions.
As noted above, one irritable bowel syndrome treatment is reducing
stress. Rather than or in addition to medication, your healthcare
professional may prescribe a program of dietary change and regular
exercise, both of which improve digestion and reduce stress. In
cases where your stress level is severe, causing anxiety or depression,
your doctor may suggest counseling.
Alternative and homeopathic IBS relief treatments
1. Heat treatments: Warming your abdomen with hot packs,
hot-water bottles, or an electric blanket may provide relief for
some symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
2. Probiotics: Beneficial strains of bacteria and yeast that
naturally occur in the healthy gut, several strains of probiotics
are effective in normalizing bowel movement frequency. Probiotics
are available as additives to foods like yogurt.
3. Hypnotherapy: Recent research in brain-gut relationship
of IBS points towards gut-directed hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis
as effective irritable bowel syndrome treatments.Research indicates
that IBS symptom reduction or elimination may last for five years
or more.
4. Acupuncture: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approaches
IBS on an individual symptom-by-symptom basis, rather than recognizing
the standard Western medical irritable bowel syndrome diagnosis.
Acupuncture to relieve the individual symptoms of irritable bowel
syndrome has proven effective in pre-clinical trials.
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