Lumping and Splitting. IBS and IBD; when does irritable become inflammatory?
Spiller and Major cite evidence showing that a diagnosis of IBS increases the risk of developing IBD. Other patients have a brief attack of IBD, which goes into remission leaving persistent bowel abnormalities and symptoms of IBS. So we don’t only have post infectious IBS and post traumatic IBS, there is also post-inflammatory IBS.
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