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Working with your healthcare provider can help make managing your condition easier A partnership between a patient and healthcare provider is essential when managing all chronic illnesses. Because the time spent with your healthcare provider is both limited and valuable, you can maximize it by following some simple guidelines before and after the visit. Learn […]

What goes on inside of your digestive system 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.  

How can using a personal daily diary for symptoms help when monitoring your GI Disorder? Using a Personal Daily Symptom Diary for 2–4 weeks can help you learn more about how your body may be reacting to certain things in your life, such as diet, exercise, stress, and sleep. A Daily Diary aims to help […]

Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a rare condition with symptoms that are similar with other more common conditions (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, endometriosis). This causes some patients to go many years before the correct diagnosis is made. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic and recurrent disorder of the GI tract usually accompanied by […]

In the last couple of decades, there have been amazing technological advances in gastroenterology. These include advances in endoscopic procedures, innovative therapeutics such as biologic medicines, and an improved understanding of the gut microbiome, among many other

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are more common than people think. Even though almost everyone has occasional bouts of GI issues, thousands of people have chronic and severe GI disorders that can make it impossible for them to work. If you have worked in the past but can’t work now because of a GI disorder that you expect to last a year or more, you can file a […]

What is Bile Acid Diarrhea? Bile acid diarrhea occurs when excess bile acids enter the colon, also known as the large intestine. This causes both increased colonic motility and increased water and electrolyte secretion in the colon. Colonic motility refers to the movement of contents through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Electrolytes are minerals in the […]

Medical and health needs of veterans who have served in the Gulf War regions of Iraq and Afghanistan were explained by advocates who spoke at a briefing in Washington, DC on October 27, 2011. Long-term or repeated exposure to high levels of stress can cause physical changes in the brain and the intestines. Combined with exposure to other environmental factors, such as gastrointestinal infections from food or water, long-term debilitating functional GI disorders may occur. This article recounts the briefing and provides additional information about the service connection to certain functional GI disorders.