321-Brochure: Talking To Your Doctor About Incontinence
Easy Read Format. If you see changes in your bowel control, the first step is to tell your doctor. Most people feel uneasy talking about their stool, intestinal gas, or bowel movements. But doctors understand that these are very normal and necessary processes in all of us. Doctors and other therapists are there to help when bodily processes go wrong. So the first very important step is to talk plainly about the problems you are experiencing. Also available offline as a glossy color brochure (3.5″ x 8.5″). Contact IFFGD for details. This publication is also available in Spanish. Go»
320-Brochure: Medical Treatment and Management of Fecal Incontinence
Easy Read Format. Many otherwise healthy people suffer from incontinence or loss of bowel control. Fecal incontinence (also called bowel incontinence) strikes people of all ages. It involves the accidental loss of solid or liquid stool. If you experience incontinence here are some things you need to know.
Also available offline as a glossy color brochure (3.5″ x 8.5″). Contact IFFGD for details.
This publication is also available in Spanish. Go»
319-Managing Incontinence: A Survey of Those Who Live with It
Many otherwise healthy, active people suffer from incontinence or loss of bowel control. Incontinence is a long-term, stressful, and limiting disorder. An effective treatment and management plan for incontinence minimizes episodes and allows individuals to regain a sense of personal control. Treatments are tailored to address each person’s specific symptoms and may include a number of approaches.
Brochure: Incontinencia Fecal y la Edad
Con la edad ocurren muchos cambios y la pérdida de la continencia fecal se vuelve más probable. Las enfermedades orgánicas, los cambios del hábito intestinal y otros factores, afectan la habilidad de mantener el control. La pérdida de la continencia fecal es muy común. Le ocurre a mucha gente. Existen muchas formas de encontrar ayuda para este problema. Este folleto le ayudará a comprender que es lo que ocurre y qué puede hacer para mejorarlo.
301-Living with and Managing Fecal Incontinence and Regaining Control
A personal account of living with fecal incontinence and helpful tips for regaining control of your life.
Also available offline as a glossy color brochure (3.5″ x 8.5″). Contact IFFGD for details.
This publication is also available in Spanish. Go»
Brochure: Viviendo y Sobrellevando la Incontinencia
Como fundadora y presidente de la Fundación Internacional para los Trastornos Funcionales Gastrointestinales, he tenido la oportunidad de hablar íntimamente con muchas personas sobre sus experiencias con la incontinencia – la pérdida de control de las evacuaciones liquidas o solidas. Quisiera compartir con ustedes algunas cosas que he aprendido sobre este trastorno.
316-Talking To Your Doctor About Incontinence
Most people feel uneasy talking about their stool, intestinal gas, or bowel movements. But doctors understand that these are very normal and necessary processes in all of us. Doctors and other therapists are there to help when bodily processes go wrong. So the first very important step is to talk plainly about the problems you are experiencing.
116 – Doctor – Patient Communication
Functional GI disorders present a special challenge to the doctor-patient interaction for several reasons. First, functional GI disorders are characterized, in most cases, by vague symptoms of variable intensity. Many times, these symptoms involve the most intimate anatomic areas of the body. The sensitivity of these issues can complicate the task for the patient who needs to express them in terms that the physician can interpret to formulate a diagnosis. Secondly, the physician is hampered by the absence of obvious structural lesions that often lessens the likelihood of devising a specific medical intervention that is successful. In some cases, the physician’s own anxiety can be increased by the lack of a symptom complex that leads to well-understood disease entity, such as parasites or lactose intolerance. This deficiency, in turn, often leads both physician and patient to over-investigate the symptoms. So what are the ingredients that comprise successful doctor-patient communication about the functional GI disorders?
215- Problems with Doctors That Interfere with Treatment
The placebo effect can enhance therapy, and promote a successful relationship between healer and patient. However, a treatment administered by a healer may also have a bad effect. Any treatment may have a predictable risk, but a nocebo effect denotes worsening beyond the known risk – the adverse effect of a failed therapeutic relationship. This can result in sub-optimal health care. An examination of its causes and ways to avoid it are discussed.
221- The Medical History: How to Help Your Doctor Help You
The most important interaction between patient and doctor is the medical history. Through listening to the story of the patient’s illness and asking relevant questions, a physician may often make a diagnosis, or at least begin to understand the nature and location of the complaint. A few easy steps can help make this process more efficient leading to prompt, more precise diagnosis and treatment. Revised January 2012.
231 – Can Intense Exercise Lead to GI Symptoms?
Can exercise be linked to GI symptoms such as diarrhea or heartburn? This article will help you understand how exercise and associated factors can influence the GI tract.
206 -Health Reporting in the Media: What to Believe?
Most people learn of medical progress through the media. Yet this news is often unhelpful. Exaggerated cures, contradictions, and plainly misleading information can do harm. The problem is not science, but how journalists report it, and how the public interprets it. This essay aims to help readers make sense of health news. Reviewed 2009.
