Cause and incident
The precise causes of IBS are not fully known, but anxiety and stress tend to make the condition worse. At certain times in their lives, some one in five people suffer from these intestinal (gut) symptoms. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is more common in women than men and often begin in early or middle adulthood and can continue throughout life.
As well as physical symptoms, those with IBS frequently experience loss of social freedom, a reduction in spontaneity, feelings of shame and embarrassment.
Symptoms
Symptoms are typically intermittant and include:
Abdomenal cramp-like pain
Bloating of the abdomen (often on the left side)
Excessive wind
Mucus being passed
Alternating bowel habits
Diarrhoea
Constipation
A feeling that bowel evacuation is incomplete
Nausea
Some people also experience headaches, back pain, and tiredness.
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Treatment
Many conventional treatments (such as antispasmodics, antidiarrhoeals, bulking agents, tranquillizers and sedatives) are often of little help. Side-effects from drug treatment are also not uncommon.
Part of the problem in treating IBS is that the cause of the condition is not as yet known. Nonetheless, certain foods, including sugar, wheat, milk and eggs are thought to play a part in creating IBS symptoms.
Along with dietary changes, there are natural (non-medication) ways to alleviate symptoms. Research by the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration based on a meta-analysis of 147 patients indicated that hypnotherapy was superior to standard treatments. Recent work by Manchester University has also supported the belief that hypnotherapy can be beneficial to IBS patients.
Since the condition is associated with stress and anxiety, hypnosis and hypnotherapy has proved successful in independent research and clinical practice. These can both address the underlying causes of the condition and can alleviate the symptoms. The gut is physiologically sensitive to anxiety and stress and this response is a natural 'flight or fight' reaction in everyone. In particular, relaxation of the large intestine (colon) by hypnosis is very effective at anxiety and stress reduction.
Alan Gray has been specifically trained to apply hypnosis and hypnotherapy to IBS by medical doctors Dr Rumi Peynovska MD MSc FBAMH and Dr Anna Zohrabian MD PhD FBAMH of Medical Hypnotherapy, London.
Can hypnotherapy beat IBS?
Independent research on hypnosis to treat IBS article |
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