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What is CAPS? Centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome (CAPS), formerly known as Functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS), is a condition of abdominal (belly) pain that is long-term or keeps coming back. The pain is not linked with changes in bowel pattern – constipation and/or diarrhea. It occurs because of abnormal functioning of nerve impulses in […]

WATCH NOW! Watch Dr. Adam Stein talk about short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure from a healthcare provider’s perspective. How is SBS Treated? The aims of treatment for SBS are to promote adaptation and get the best use out of the existing bowel, maintain adequate nutritional status, and manage symptoms and complications. Complications can arise […]

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a complex, challenging condition for patients, caregivers, doctors, and other health specialists. Treatment of the condition involves life-long therapies and approaches that need to be closely monitored. Successful management of SBS depends most strongly on an informed patient and caregivers working closely with a supportive team of healthcare providers. Working […]

Nutrition Strategies for Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) Nutrition strategies aim to prevent malnutrition and dehydration and maintain the best possible nutrition status. This may include oral eating, enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition. All methods may be used by patients in their homes. Nutrition support specialists (registered dietitians, nurses, healthcare providers) play a key role in […]

Medications for SBS In recent years, pharmacological hormonal therapy (the use of hormones in medical treatment) has been introduced aiming to stimulate intestinal adaptation after intestinal resections. Clinical research involving growth hormone, glutamine, and glucagon-like peptide 2 growth hormone (GLP-2) have been studied for the treatment of SBS. Teduglutide (Gattex ®), a recombinant analog of […]

Pain is in our body and our brain, but we can use our mind, our actions, and our spirit to help control pain even when it is not possible to cure it. For this reason, much of the psychological research in pain has focused on what are effective and ineffective coping strategies – how we […]

Celiac Disease What You Need to Know Did you know more than 2 million Americans have celiac disease (CeD) but most of them don’t know it? What is celiac disease? CeD damages the small intestine. People with this disease can’t eat gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley and in some products such […]

Defining Functional Dysphagia Functional dysphagia is the sensation of solid and/or liquid foods sticking, lodging, or passing abnormally through the esophagus.  We swallow on average once every minute and this is supplemented by the production of saliva. Swallowing increases dramatically (6–8 times per minute) when we eat. When swallowing is disrupted, the consequences can be […]

The human body is amazing and also complicated. While one could argue that ‘everything’ has an impact on ‘everything’ else in the body (which it often does), for the purpose of understanding our health and disease we tend to organize the body into 12 major organ systems. These include the integumentary (skin), skeletal, muscular, lymphatic, […]

Nearly everyone experiences unwanted digestive issues now and again. Sometimes these may be minor, other times they may be very disruptive. A number of symptoms that occur together may characterize irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or another functional GI disorder. Whether or not digestive symptoms arise from functional GI disorders, there may […]