Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): An Overview of IBS symptoms, causes and types.

Irritable bowel syndrome, also known as IBS, is a term for a group of symptoms that affect your digestive system. This is, in fact, a common but rather awkward gastrointestinal disease or medical condition affecting your intestines. Symptoms in people with IBS vary from pain in the abdomen and cramping to diarrhoea or constipation and it alternates frequently. With IBS you may also have diarrhoea, constipation, or an alternating type of pattern where it switches back and forth. IBS does not cause damage in your GI (gastrointestinal) tract, nor does it increase the risk of worse problems like colon cancer. Instead, it is one chronic condition that most people can keep under control through changing their habits and what they eat, taking medications and receiving behavioral therapy.