Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Signs & Symptoms
Common symptoms of IBS are as follows:
- Pain or discomfort in different parts abdomen easing with passage
of stools and gas.
- Bloating and swelling of abdomen develops from time to time.
- Altered stool frequency
- Some patients may suffer from diarrhea and some others from constipation;
some patients experience diarrhea alternating with constipation.
- Altered stool form with the stool becoming small and pellet like,
while in some others the stool is watery or ribbony.
- Patients have a feeling of not fully emptying their rectum after going
to the toilet.
- Patients experience an urgency to attend toilet.
- Other symptoms also include nausea, belching, poor appetite, muscle
pains, heartburn and bladder symptoms.
Some of the non-gastrointestinal symptoms include:
- Anxiety or depression
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Unpleasant taste in the mouth
- Backache
- Insomnia
- Sexual problems, such as pain during sex or reduced sexual desire
- Heart palpitations
- Urinary symptoms (frequent or urgent need to urinate, trouble starting
the urine stream, trouble emptying the bladder)
- Symptoms appear post-meal, during stressful times or during menstruation
(2) (9) & (10).
Article by Kona Vishnu, MS
Medical Writer,
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