Stomach growling (AKA borborygmus) is a rumbling in your abdomen that happens when food, fluid, or gas make its way through your stomach and/or small intestine. These borborygmi are often accompanied by other symptoms like bloating, diarrhea, or constipation. Most people experience stomach growling every so often. Your body might be telling you that you…
Irritable bowel syndrome (also called IBS) is a digestive disease, whose common symptoms include abdominal discomfort, abdominal bloating, and abnormal bowel habits. Rome criteria dictates that, in order to diagnose IBS, a patient has to exhibit recurring abdominal pain for six or more months, as well as two of the following three symptoms: Pain or…
What is dysbiosis? Dysbiosis is when harmful bacteria have overpowered your good bacteria, which can trigger bloating, depression, IBS, and eventually even cancer. Dysbiosis can occur on your skin — that’s right, you have good bacteria living on your skin — in your mouth, in your vagina or rectum, or in your gut. Let’s focus…
Struggle with constipation? Dr. Rafatjah discusses functional constipation in children and adults, including causes, treatment plans, and long-term outlook.
Tens of millions of Americans deal with colon spasms every year. When your bowel habits alternate between constipation and diarrhea, this can indicate other root causes that need to be treated right away. Colon spasms may be your body’s way of letting you know there’s something wrong with your digestive health. There are several underlying…
We all deal with problems in the bathroom. Often, we do not seek medical advice or helpful treatment because diarrhea can be embarrassing. More than half of all Americans have diarrhea in any given year, and those are just the reported cases. About 4 billion cases of diarrhea are reported each year globally. If you…
When you deal with problems in the bathroom for so many months or even years, you start to think everyone has those issues. But digestive disorders are curable — and nothing to be embarrassed about. According to the International Foundation of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects between 25 and 45 million people…