Aloe Vera And IBS

Can Aloe Vera Help IBS

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is sometimes known as spastic colon, mucous colitis, spastic colitis, irritable colon or nervous stomach. - it is a condition that affects the functioning of the bowel and usually causes the sufferer mild to acute abdominal pain and unusual bowel habits.

IBS is reasonably common - around 40% of visits to gastroenterologists are because of irritable bowel syndrome. It is estimated that around 15% of the UK population has suffered from IBS at one time or another.

IBS can be quite difficult to diagnose and quite often a sufferer will not seek medical attention and just assume that he or she has a nervous stomach.

The condition is often described and classified as being a functional disorder that is controlled by the brain. Functional disorders are hard to identify exactly and so an endoscopy, x-ray, or blood test will not identify the condition. IBS is diagnosed from the characteristics of the symptoms rather than any physical examination.

Symptoms Of IBS

The symptoms of IBS are wide ranging and can cause mild to severe suffering. The usual symptoms are abdominal pain and discomfort - this usually occurs in the lower abdomin. Unusual bowel movements and chronic diarrhea, constipation, or both – either mixed or in alternation are other common characteristics.

Other less common symptoms include

• Bloating
• Nausea
• A Premature Feeling Of Fullness
• Heartburn

What Causes IBS

Decades ago IBS was not considered a real condition and so sufferers who sought medical help were often tagged as hypochondriacs. Nowadays it is interpretted as a real physiological condition that requires some kind of treatment.

It is not know with any great certainty what causes IBS - although understanding what could trigger the condition is getting more and more conclusive.

Possible Causes are:

• An overgrowth or surge of bacteria in the small intestines. It has been for people to develop symptoms after a bout of gastroenteritis.
• Stress - There is real medical eveidence that stress has a bearing on cause the bowel to behave differently, but a large proportion of suffers have noted that stressful situation have resulted in a an attack of IBS.
• Food allergies - again it has never been proven that certain foods can bring on an attack of IBS.

Because we still know relatively little about the causes of IBS - it is still very speculatory - it will only be a matter of time until overwhelving coincendental evidence points us to what the axact causes really are.

Aloe Vera Treatment For IBS

Taking Aloe Vera tablets and drinking Aloe Vera Juice regularly offers tremendous benefits to sufferers of IBS