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Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012, 12:14pm

My lovely wife is suffering a fair bit with this at present.

Any suggestions of alleviation would be more than welcome.

Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2012, 1:10pm

I'll have to look it up, because I have never been sure exactly what is meant by that term.

Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2012, 1:13pm

Hmmm, it looks like it is a bit of everything mixed together at random.

That's why I wasn't sure "exactly" what it meant.

Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012, 1:35pm

I've looked at various internet suggestions which are sometimes contradictory and obviously some bits are copied from other sites. They are of some use but anybody with practical experience of coping with it would be invaluable.

She's pretty miserable with it.

Posted by tod2 on Apr 12, 2012, 3:39pm

Hi Mick - I can only tell you what I had to take many years ago for a tummy problem (so long ago I cant recall the exact problem) but I was presribed KANTREXIL.

This is what I found on a website, which was a doctors answer to someone with severe tummy/bowel trouble.
"...should add is a probiotic three times a day and also take some Rehidrat to put back the salts you lost with the diarrhoea. If it persists, you could try Kantrexil which is a local antibiotic and stool firmer that does not get absorbed in the body but works only in the gut".

Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012, 3:49pm

Thanks tod2. That's the sort of thing I need.

Our doctor is suggesting Valium as the next stage which she will avoid like the plague..............

Posted by auntieannie on Apr 13, 2012, 9:24pm

mick, I am currently doing a BSc in Herbal medicine. This is the kind of things we can treat very well with herbs. maybe your wife would like to visit either a CPP or NIMH approved herbalist in your area?
The herbal world is small so I might even know the person!

There are many possible causes and symptoms of IBS and I wouldn't want to suggest anything without knowing more.
I am happy to give you pointers via pm or email if you wish me to, but as you and K2 noted above, it is not a straightforward illness to say the least.

Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 19, 2012, 12:20pm

Thanks aa.

She is over it now but we'll see how she goes.

Posted by auntieannie on Apr 23, 2012, 9:47am

good to read this, Mick!

Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 25, 2012, 7:21pm

I always wonder if it is "something you ate" or a passing bacterial event. I am ultra lucky because I seem to have an overdeveloped immune system. I'm the sort of person who can drink sewer water from the canals of Jakarta and not get sick (98% of the time -- but I also have tales I can tell about the other 2% of the time). In both Cambodia and Vietnam, I was told by locals "we can have ice cubes but you can't," and I remained in perfect health when I demanded them anyway.

But I have known lots of people who take every precaution, when travelling or even in their own country, and who are constantly ill from either food or drink. I tend to think that a lot of it is psychosomatic, but I have no proof of this. I remember one guy who would get sick as a dog and puke his guts out all night if somebody said "I think the chicken was a bit pink." There could be ten other people at dinner, and he would be the only person who became ill.

Posted by onlymark on Apr 25, 2012, 7:33pm

I'm certain being sick when travelling is far less to do with the food and/or water being 'bad' rather than it being different. Plus a lot of times I'd put it down to a bug caught on the flight out, the stresses and strains of being in an unfamiliar environment and travelling, the exposure suddenly to different weather etc etc.

Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 25, 2012, 8:11pm

It is true that "different" water often seems to send the body of certain people into a panic, no matter how much you can prove that the water is not a risk. I don't know if it is all in the head of if it is the body that decides that certain suspicious minerals or chemicals must be expelled instantly.

Posted by auntieannie on Apr 26, 2012, 10:08am

sure, K2 and MArk... but IBS is different from travelling sickness.


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