{"id":165,"date":"2010-01-11T18:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogstemp3.wpengine.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:28:05","slug":"how-do-you-spell-relief-for-irritable-bowel-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/how-do-you-spell-relief-for-irritable-bowel-syndrome\/2010\/01\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Spell Relief for Irritable Bowel Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I\u2019m frustrated. I do not know how to manage a substantial portion of my IBS patients because so few of them get relief from traditional therapies (bulking agents, antidiarrheals, tricyclic antidepressants, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I noticed that many of my colleagues are using Align probiotics, Iberogast herbal supplements, and other alternative\/complementary therapies for their IBS patients. So, I diligently re-reviewed the literature on these treatments but came away more confused than ever; the studies are varied and usually small, the endpoints are unclear, and the follow-ups are short. Yet, my colleagues and their patients seem a whole lot more satisfied with the outcomes than I am.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use alternative treatments for IBS? If so, what do you use, and what responses are you seeing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I\u2019m frustrated. I do not know how to manage a substantial portion of my IBS patients because so few of them get relief from traditional therapies (bulking agents, antidiarrheals, tricyclic antidepressants, etc.). Recently, I noticed that many of my colleagues are using Align probiotics, Iberogast herbal supplements, and other alternative\/complementary therapies for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,42,50],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ibs","tag-irritable-bowel-syndrome","tag-probiotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}