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I like these suggestions!

If your daughter likes herbal tea, see if you can get her to start drinking peppermint tea first thing in the morning and after meals. Give her some Altoids to chew on without mentioning that they're for IBS.

There are a lot of kid-friendly recipes in the IBS Newsletters here Newsletters that you could just make without saying a word about them. And see if you can just get your daughter to have a piece of fresh white bread before her meals or whenever her stomach is empty. Just hand her a piece a couple of times a day as a snack - you don't have to even mention why.

Not sure how old she is, but she might identify with the First Year IBS intro which is here web page as it has my story starting at age nine, and I went through a lot of discouragement and hearing "there's nothing wrong with you" just like she has.

- H

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