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Bowel disease plagues many people and this ranges from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Many people go through life suffering from symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, nausea and generally feeling unwell with constipation or diarrhoea or a mix of both problems.
Some find it difficult to tolerate many foods and simple stool testing can miss complex pathology.
The vast majority of GP’s are not trained to deal with food sensitivities or functional bowel disease beyond the pharmacological approach and yet so much can be done to investigate and treat underlying causes of symptoms that just don’t want to go away.
A detailed stool analysis that counts bacterial populations is vital as even those bacteria called commensals thought to be benign, can become pathogenic if their numbers increase to pathological levels.
