Managing Your Diet

It's natural for anyone to think that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) attacks are linked to food and drink. Sometimes the episodes are brought on by stress or other situations, but in many sufferers, food and drinks do play an active part in triggering symptoms.

However, studies have shown that modification of the diet of those suffering form IBS may help one person but is not beneficial to the next. Similarly, many but not all find help through nutraceuticals and over the counter medicines. Many of these help to control the symptoms of IBS allowing return to a more natural diet while other in the long term help to maintain control. However, with diet alone there is no magic wand, but there are some basic markers for sensible eating and drinking that can help.

To reiterate, the success of the dietary treatment of IBS lies very much in individualised patient assessment, planning and follow up, there is no blueprint of generalised dietary advice which will work for everyone. We will all react differently to the manipulation of our diets.

Bearing all this in mind, we suggest that you should take the information presented here as a guideline to assess if your dietary intake is anywhere in the region of what is considered normal, then on a basis of this decide whether you need to seek further advice.

Balancing Your Diet

Fibre

Fluids

Your Reaction To Food