Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common diagnoses in any primary health care practice in our country and, possibly, in the whole world. Irritable bowel syndrome is a name that has been transferred to a condition in which the patient has intestinal gas, bloating, belching, diarrhea and / or alternating constipation with a general discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract.
In conventional medicine, when a patient develops these symptoms, they can be tested for stools, colonoscopy and upper endoscopy of the GI. If all of these tests are normal, the patient is informed that he or she has "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" and "nothing to worry about." However, the symptoms can be quite heterosexual and often lead the patient to seek care for the integral doctor.
Integrative doctors in general and my practice, in particular, know that this diagnosis is a kind of “wastebasket” in which people are concentrated. With careful research from the point of view of integrative medicine, many underlying causes can be detected that are completely treatable and the symptoms disappear.
One of the most common causes of these symptoms is food allergies. Ordinary doctors will only call food an allergen, if a patient eats this food, they break out in hives and rashes all over the body and require emergency care. Integrative doctors know that more subtle allergic reactions can cause IBS symptoms.
The PJ Whorwell article and collections, a few years ago, looked at an additional way to find food allergies. In particular, this blood test is looking for "IgG: antibodies in the blood." I have performed blood tests for this type of food allergy for several years and found it to be extremely valuable in helping people with IBS symptoms.
This study took a group of patients with irritable bowel syndrome and performed a blood test for IgG antibodies. They monitored patients for 12 weeks. For those patients who were fully compatible with the diet recommended by the blood test, 26% of the symptoms were noted. In addition, other non-specific symptoms improved in these patients, including quality of life and anxiety / depression.
I recently found this study that confirms what integrative doctors have been doing for some time. In my practice, this is just one of several tests that I do to help patients resolve their IBS. And I have seen remarkable results with this.
If you have IBS symptoms, ask your doctor to do a blood test for IgG antibodies to find out if you have a food allergy. Then follow the diet prescribed by the blood test and see if your symptoms disappear.
Let me know if you are allergic to foods about your symptoms and how helpful was your diet to minimize bowel symptoms? Questions? Let me know here.
Looking forward to your reply.
Dr. Soram
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