After acute infectious gastroenteritis, up to thirty percent of patients present prolonged gastrointestinal symptoms and a part of those affected patients can have the diagnostic criteria for postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome. Treatment is symptom directed rather than curative and includes agents prescribed for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in general. Prophylaxis or early tre...

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Background & Aims: Celiac disease or gluten-sensitive enteropathy is a relatively uncommon digestive disease. Moreover, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder. Some IBS patients have celiac disease, with similar IBS symptoms in addition to some serious complications. The only possible treatment for this condition is changing the patients diet (gluten free diet). Gi...

conclusions the findings showed that benson relaxation training might be an effective therapy for improving quality of life in patients with ibs. background irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is one of the most common functional disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract that is characterized by abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits. this disorder changes the quality of life of patients. ob...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) in the community is 10%–20% and have symptom based diagnostic criteria. many symptoms of celiac disease (cd) with 1% prevalence in some communities can mimic ibs. sensitive and specific serologic tests of cd can detect asymptomatic cases. the purpose of this stud...

backgrounds: anxiety and depression are found to be the major contributors to irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). the present study aimed to measure the effect of a specifically designed cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) program on the severity of the symptoms and quality of life of patients with chronic ibs, and also define whether anxiety and depression in patients with ibs at baseline affect t...

objectives : this study aimed to investigate the long-term effects of mindfulness-based therapy on improving life quality of patients with irritable bowel syndrome. method : this was an experimental study including 24 patients (12 from each group) with ibs syndrome were selected based on the romeiii criteria and were randomly placed in the test and control groups. in both groups, the scales of ...