Symptoms of irritable Bowel Syndrome
Bloating, belching, flatulence, nausea, indigestion, abdominal cramps, heaviness after meals, diarrhoea, constipation……..These are just some of a myriad of debilitating Gastro-Instestinal symptoms that are commonly presented by patients. In fact, they are so prevalent that one survey of 500 British people found that as many as 10% suffers from these types of symptoms almost every day.
Gastro Intestinal Symptoms can be due to medical conditions like celiac disease, Crohn’s disease or colitis. But in other cases, medical tests can find no organic cause, meaning that patients are left without a clear direction of how to improve their health.
Such cases are what are known as “Irritable Bowel Syndrome”
What Causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome
The symptoms of IBS can be caused due to number of factors, many of which involve inflammatory mediators. Immune system may identify the food as a pathogen if your body lacks the enzyme which breaks the food down. Ammonium is a toxic by – product of protein metabolisation created largely in the intestines which also contributes to inflammation. As a result, the body can suffer various symptoms mentioned above. Often the foods we include regularly in our diet or the foods we crave may be the ones causing the problem.
Take a Food Intolerance Test
If you suspect something in your diet is affecting you, “Food Intolerance Test” may help identify problem foods. Research has shown that food intolerances can be linked to IgG antibodies produced when these “problem” foods eaten. Normally these antibodies do not have any ill-effects, but if the immune or digestive system are not working efficiently, their presence may cause a wide range of symptoms. Symptoms can persist for several days or longer, making it difficult to identify which foods your body is struggling to deal with.
Many people experience an improvement in health after eliminating the identified foods for 3-6 months, and replacing with healthy alternatives.
Dr Zeeba Shariff qualified as a Medical doctor in 1988. After which she worked as senior home officer in various hospital departments, such as A&E, Maternity, Pediatric children unit and in general medicine.
In 2002 she obtained her Master’s degree in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey, followed by training in applied Nutrition and Herbalism from the Centre of Nutritional Education. She is a full member of BANT, NTC, CHNC, The Nutrition Society, Candida Society, Cambridge Nutritional Science and Genova Diagnostics.
For the last ten years she has been working as successful Nutritional Therapist and has completed numerous courses in the different fields of Nutrition recognized by the Royal College of Medicine, BANT, CAMand Nutrition Society.