Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional gastrointestinal disease characterized by abdominal pain, abdominal distension and abdominal discomfort accompanied by changes in defecation habits. It can seriously affect our work, study, life and mental health, and reduce the quality of life of patients. The prevalence of IBS in the general population was 1.4%-11.5%, which was slightly higher in women than in men. It was more common in young and middle-aged people (18-59 years old) and decreased in the elderly (≥60 years old).

Studies have found that IBS can be caused by a variety of factors, including mood disorders, food allergies or intolerances, excessive alcohol consumption, intestinal infections and disturbances in the microbiota. Once you have IBS, you will have the following symptoms:

① Abdominal pain: this is the most important symptom, easy to appear after eating, to the lower abdomen and left lower abdomen more common, the main characteristic is repeated attacks, spastic pain.

② Diarrhea: usually about 3 to 5 times a day, the stool is thin paste, can also be soft stool or dilute water. Mostly mucous, but no pus or blood.

③ Constipation: dry stool, less amount, can bring more mucus, constipation and diarrhea can alternate.

④ Abdominal distension and abdominal discomfort: heavy during the day, especially in the afternoon, and relieved after sleep at night.

Self-care is key

Irritable bowel syndrome is a benign disease, mainly long-term intermittent or recurrent abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, but it will bring mental torture and inconvenience in life. Therefore, once you suspect that you have irritable bowel syndrome or have related symptoms and affect your life, please go to the relevant departments of the hospital as soon as possible, first of all, to exclude organic lesions.

So far, there is no specific treatment for IBS, and diagnosed patients mainly learn to self-regulate in life. Under the guidance of doctors, through healthy diet, good living habits, psychological counseling, supplemented with appropriate drugs, most patients can achieve symptom relief or recovery within weeks to years.

Diet plays an important role in the treatment of IBS. There are two methods:

① Elimination diet method, can not tolerate or allergic food from the daily diet. Do not eat raw and cold food, do not drink ice drinks, greasy, spicy as far as possible not to touch; For shrimp, crab, milk, peanuts and other suspicious intolerant food, usually should be well recorded, such as the occurrence of irritable bowel symptoms after eating a food for many times, listed in the fasting list.

② Increase dietary fiber method, can increase dietary fiber intake, improve constipation symptoms.

Pay more attention to your daily habits as well.

For a cold with loose bowels of the patient, that the stomach is very sensitive to cold stimulation, usually must pay attention to keep warm, especially to protect the navel. The navel is the weakest part of our abdomen. It is rich in blood vessels under the navel and lacks the shelter of muscle and adipose tissue. It is easy to catch wind and cold, cause gastrointestinal spasm, and lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea.

In addition to diet and daily habits, psychological counseling can not be ignored.

Many people will cause irritable bowel syndrome because of tension and other emotions, this time we need to relax, relieve anxiety, tension and fear and other bad emotions, work regularly, moderate exercise, listen to music, keep open-minded, optimistic mood.

Surface gastrointestinal pacing - adjuvant therapy with high safety

Some studies have shown that gastrointestinal pacing can significantly improve the gastrointestinal symptoms of patients with irritable bowel syndrome, which is a good treatment.

The movement of the gastrointestinal tract is caused by the regular contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle. A specific area of the gastrointestinal tract can drive the contraction of gastrointestinal smooth muscle and control the basic bioelectrical rhythm of the gastrointestinal tract. Medically, this specific area is called the gastrointestinal pacemaker.

Gastrointestinal pacing therapy is to simulate the normal gastrointestinal bioelectrical signal, act on the gastrointestinal pacemaker, make the electrical activity of the gastrointestinal pacemaker produce 'following effect', correct the abnormal gastrointestinal peristaltic rhythm and promote the movement trend to normalize, so as to achieve the purpose of treating functional gastrointestinal diseases.

Biofeedback gastrointestinal motility instrument is developed by Kuancheng Technology according to the basic principle of 'gastrointestinal pacing'. It combines biofeedback therapy and acupoint stimulation, applies modern electronic technology to simulate normal gastrointestinal electrical signals, acts on gastrointestinal acupoints on the body surface, and effectively detects and treats a variety of functional gastrointestinal diseases.

The device for 'functional constipation' and 'after the meal is not syndrome' did a multi-center clinical trials, treatment efficiency more than 80%, has definite clinical data and excellent clinical effect as support, the ability to decline and gastrointestinal function disorder phenomenon, poor bowel movements play a positive role in treatment, such as at the same time in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome have significant effect.