| suffer from diarrhea or alternating with constipation, | | | | cancer, diverticulosis and food allergies. |
| lower abdominal stomach cramps and frequent gas | | | | Once you have been properly diagnosed, you can go |
| and bloating that you may have a spastic colon! | | | | about trying to control your symptoms. Although there |
| Spastic colon, otherwise known as Irritable Bowel | | | | are some medicines out there for spastic colon (IBS), |
| Syndrome or IBS is a condition that can range from | | | | your best bet is to change your diet. What you want |
| being terribly inconvenient to being debilitating and is | | | | to do is avoid insoluble fiber and high-fat foods. Narrow |
| considered to be the most common chronic health | | | | your diet down to include mostly foods that are full of |
| issue in America today. | | | | soluble fiber until your symptoms ease up and then |
| Some of the symptoms of era bull bowel syndrome or | | | | adding different foods and monitor your symptoms to |
| spastic colon are the same symptoms of other | | | | try to pinpoint trigger foods. Once you know what your |
| diseases so you want to make sure to get a | | | | true foods are you can avoid eating those altogether. |
| complete diagnosis before you decide that this Is what | | | | It's important to eat a lot of foods with soluble fiber |
| you have. Symptoms can include cramping of the | | | | such as rice, oatmeal, soy, carrots, squash, many in his, |
| lower abdomen, constipation, diarrhea or alternating | | | | potatoes, applesauce and pasta in addition to taking a |
| constipation and diarrhea as well as polluting and gas in | | | | soluble fiber supplement to help ease the digestive |
| mucus in the stools. These attacks can happen at any | | | | process. |
| time during the day or night and sometimes even | | | | You will have to experiment with different foods to |
| when you are sleeping, waking you up and causing | | | | find out which ones make your bowels irritable but |
| you to run to the bathroom. This is a real physical | | | | some foods that seem to consistently do this for most |
| problem where your bowels simply just do not work | | | | people are high-fat foods, coffee, and alcohol. |
| properly. | | | | While you want to be careful with foods that are high |
| As you can imagine, people who suffer from a spastic | | | | in the insoluble fibers such as fruits and vegetables you |
| colon may want to hide themselves In the house | | | | also need to include them in your diet as they contain |
| never knowing when the next attack will come. | | | | vitamins and minerals that are important to your overall |
| Although there is no "cure" for spastic colon, there are | | | | health. The key is to make sure that you cook them, |
| many things you can do to alleviate and sometimes | | | | remove the skins and eat them with other foods that |
| even eliminate the symptoms.if you suspect that you | | | | are high in soluble fiber. For example, you might try |
| have IBS or spastic colon you must see your doctor | | | | combining rice with cooked carrots or have oatmeal |
| who will probably send you to a specialist to determine | | | | with your morning fruit |
| if this Is truly your problem. Symptoms associated with | | | | Your spastic colon does not have to turn you into a |
| this problem can also mean more serious diseases | | | | shut in, afraid to go out shopping or even out to eat for |
| that need to be treated right away. Says there is no | | | | fear that an attack will come. With a little bit of time |
| test that can tell you that you specifically have spastic | | | | and experimentation you can identify your trigger |
| colon, what the doctor will do is run a series of tests to | | | | foods and get yourself on the eating plan that will |
| eliminate other problems. These other problems include | | | | soothe the digestive process and help alleviate your |
| Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, colon cancer, ovarian | | | | symptoms and attacks. |