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How Can You Manage Diarrhea? Managing diarrhea can be tough. Diarrhea is best described as the too frequent and often urgent passage of loose or watery stools, but there is no perfect definition of the disorder. There are many causes, and diarrhea may be a mild nuisance or a disabling dysfunction with life-threatening consequences. Therefore, […]

Introduction Constipation is defined as the experience one of more problems with bowel movements (BMs) such as infrequent bowel movements, hard and difficult to pass bowel movements, incomplete bowel movements, straining to have a bowel movement, prolonged duration of time needed to evacuate a bowel movement,use of digital maneuvers (use of fingers) to assist bowel […]

In chronic pain, we have strong evidence that our pain modulation system is not working well. Instead ofsuppression, the system may be over-sensitized so that even normal sensations trigger pain transmission and suffering. As a result of the pain, patients may also have increased levels of anxiety and depression, decreased quality of life, fear of […]

Food allergies are an immune system response by which the body creates antibodies as a reaction to certain food. Symptoms similar to those of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) include diarrhea and abdominal pain. Other symptoms can include vomiting, hives, itching, swelling of the lips, tightness in the throat, and wheezing. Allergic symptoms usually occur within […]

Malabsorption refers to decreased intestinal absorption of carbohydrate, protein, fat, minerals or vitamins. There are many symptoms associated with malabsorption. Weight loss, diarrhea, greasy stools (due to high fat content), abdominal bloating and gas are suggestive of malabsorption. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies resulting from malabsorption may cause glossitis (sore tongue), cheilosis (a fissuring and dry […]

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and the Military Service Member: What You Need to Know. An IFFGD Publication by: Mark S. Riddle, MD, DrPH (Captain, US Navy, retired), University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System, Reno, NV There is an old Civil War saying, “It takes good guts to […]