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What You Need to Know About Gas in Children. Digestive Health and Nutrition. p. 20. March-April 2000.

This brief article familiarizes readers with the physiology underlying a common occurrence: gas in children. The author stresses that burping and passing gas is usually part of the child's healthy digestive system. However, when the child has stomach pain that is relieved by making stool, has a change in stool habit, stool hardness, or bloating of the stomach, then he or she may suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). There are some situations that do lead to too much gas in a child. Some of these are nursing with an empty bottle, using a stiff nipple or a nipple with too small an opening, and failure to bring a baby into an upright position to burp after feeding. In older children, using a straw, chewing gum, sucking on candies, drinking too many carbonated drinks, overusing antacids, swallowing large amounts of air, or suddenly increasing dietary fiber can cause gas. The author concludes by reiterating that there is no link between colic and gas. The article is printed in the same issue with a lengthy article on gas problems (flatulence and burping) in adults.

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Taking Aim at Acute Symptoms. In: Bolen, B.B. Breaking the Bonds of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Approach to Regaining Control of Your Life. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2000. p.65-77.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) consists of recurrent episodes of abdominal pain related to altered bowel habit, which may consist of predominantly constipation or diarrhea, or an alternation between the two. This chapter on managing the acute symptoms of the disease is from a book in which the author encourages an open discussion of the symptoms and feelings that accompany IBS. Charts and worksheets help readers track the relationship between unpleasant symptoms and external triggers such as foods, stressful events, emotional states, and certain thoughts. Coping skills, such as relaxation exercises and assertiveness techniques, teach readers how to manage their stress more effectively and help them break free of the restrictions placed upon them by the disruptiveness of this digestive disorder. This chapter helps readers cope in the short term with acute symptoms, beginning with a self-monitoring sheet for recording symptoms and situations that accompany them. Topics include dealing with diarrhea, the role of planning, coping with constipation, deciding about telling others about one's IBS, fecal incontinence (involuntary loss of stool), bloating, and gas (flatulence). Throughout the chapter, the author emphasizes the importance of educating oneself and taking an active role in one's own disease management.

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Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Nutrition You Can Live With. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, Inc. 2000. 137 p.

This book offers eating and nutrition guidelines for people who have been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). People with IBS have bowels that tend to overreact in certain situations. Whatever affects the bowels of the population at large, such as diet, hormones, or stress, affects those of people with IBS even more, resulting in the symptoms of the disorder. This book suggests an approach to managing IBS that includes eating a healthful diet (rich in high fiber foods that the patient can tolerate), drinking plenty of water, avoiding foods that make symptoms worse, and finding ways to minimize and handle the stress of daily living. The author cautions that treating IBS is like trying to hit a moving target; not only do IBS symptoms vary from one person to the next, they can also change from week to week in the same person. Similarly, different treatments work for different people and some treatments used for one symptom can cause a completely new symptom to occur. This book emphasizes the possible dietary treatments for IBS. The author notes that people with IBS who do not seem to respond well to drugs or dietary modification may want to concentrate on the psychological treatments available for IBS. The book offers seven chapters that cover common questions about IBS ('everything you ever wanted to ask a gastroenterologist'), the main symptoms of IBS, working with a dietitian to manage IBS, ten food steps to freedom, 20 recommended recipes, food shopping guidelines, and eating out at restaurants. The ten food steps include keep an FFS (food, feelings, symptoms) diary, eat high fiber foods, drink eight or more 8 ounce glasses of water, limit caffeine, avoid high fat meals and snacks, avoid trouble spice, avoid overdoing alcohol, avoid gassy foods, eat smaller more frequent meals, and exercise. A brief subject index concludes the book.

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Understanding our Digestive System. In: Bolen, B.B. Breaking the Bonds of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Approach to Regaining Control of Your Life. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2000. p.17-27.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) consists of recurrent episodes of abdominal pain related to altered bowel habit, which may consist of predominantly constipation or diarrhea, or an alternation between the two. This chapter on the digestive system is from a book in which the author encourages an open discussion of the symptoms and feelings that accompany irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Charts and worksheets help readers track the relationship between unpleasant symptoms and external triggers such as foods, stressful events, emotional states, and certain thoughts. Coping skills, such as relaxation exercises and assertiveness techniques, teach readers how to manage their stress more effectively and help them break free of the restrictions placed upon them by the disruptiveness of this digestive disorder. This chapter reviews the anatomy and physiology of the digestive tract, the relationship between the brain and the digestive system (the brain-gut link), the symptoms of IBS, abnormal visceral sensitivity, motility dysfunction, the role of stress, and gender differences in IBS. Throughout the chapter, the author emphasizes the importance of educating oneself and taking an active role in one's own disease management.

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Unreplicated Trials. In: Manu, P. Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Medical Press. 2000. p. 169-174.

This chapter is from a book that evaluates drug therapies for each of the four major functional disorders: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and premenstrual syndrome. In this chapter, the fifth of six short chapters that focuses on IBS, the author introduces and reviews unreplicated research trials on therapies for the condition. These trials include Streptococcus faecium, not substantially better than placebo for any of the symptoms evaluated; fedotozine (a drug used to block colonic pain), with which a high dose (30 mg daily) was better than placebo with regard to the severity of abdominal pain and abdominal distention; Chinese herbal medicine, which offered encouraging results (44 percent with treatment improved, compared to 22 percent taking placebo) that need replicating; and Indian herbal medicine, which was no better than placebo with respect to the proportions of patients reporting improvement in the severity of abdominal pain, constipation, gaseousness, and altered bowel habits (diarrhea and constipation). The Indian herbal mixture was effective in reducing the severity of diarrhea and that of symptoms of anxiety and depression, but this limited benefit does not support widespread use of Indian herbal medicine as a therapeutic modality for patients with IBS.

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