Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: IBS-D - Dr.'s

The IBS Treatment center believes IBS is just "any gi symptoms" and not a distint entity with subgroups. They are an alternative lab who believes IBS is caused by celiac, bacteria, food allergies ect.. They do not follow the diagnoses of IBS or the current state of information on IBS from the actual researchers and they do not do research themselves on IBS.

There is no evidence for IBS being caused by foods or bacteria and IBS IS NOT celiac.

Foods and bacteria can trigger the symptoms as well as many things that can trigger the symptoms.

An employee from there has continually posted bad IBS information to the IBS self help group.

Some of the things they might do can actually be harmful to IBSers. For example giving the antibiotics for IBS on there interpretation of results. Antibiotics can also mess people with IBS up. Short term it may relieve gas production and hence gas pains, but that is not something you can do forever for one.

http://www.ibsgroup.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=84194&hl=betterthrough+science

http://www.ibsgroup.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=87835&hl=betterthrough+science

Part of how they might help is the time they spend with someone.

So here with have an IBS treatment center that doesn't seem to understand the diagnoses of IBS itself and mentions things that are NOT IBS as IBS. go figure.

You also might want to read this on various testing.

http://www.allergy.org.au:80/pospapers/unorthodox.htm

Personally I believe, there are quite a few alternative doctors and websites that promote extremely bad information on IBS and this is a serious problem.

Ivy, what bacteria imbalance? A certain bacteria you had or just general?

Lorilea,

"If your IBS symptoms are due to gluten or other food intolerances"

IBS IS NOT caused by gluten intolerence or food intolerences.

"bacteria (now gone)"

What bacteria and whats' gone and how did they achieve it?

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