IBS Tales

Did you know that 4,090 people in the UK are too sick to work because of IBS? That’s the number of people who claimed incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance in February 2007 and who cited IBS as the main reason for their claim. (For my further-flung readers, incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance are [...]

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…this is what I would do… 1) Put the diarrhea sufferers on calcium carbonate, and the constipation sufferers on magnesium (probably the citrate form) 2) Tell them all to stop drinking alcohol and any caffeinated drinks 3) Put them all on a gluten-free and dairy-free diet 4) Tell them to cut out all artificial sweeteners, [...]

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