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• Title:Making sense of IBS : a physician answers your questions about irritable bowel syndrome / Brian E. Lacy.
  
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• Variant Title:Making sense of irritable bowel syndrome
  
• Author/Creator:Lacy, Brian E.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WI520 .L33 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Irritable colon.
  
• Description:xii, 305 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Johns Hopkins Press health book.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-293) and index.
  
• ISBN:0801884551 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  9780801884559 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  080188456X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780801884566 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Irritable bowel syndrome : who, what, and why?
  1. Why me? : why now?
  2. What is IBS?
  3. How common is IBS?
  4. What causes IBS?
  Pt. II. Diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome
  5. How is IBS diagnosed?
  6. IBS and other medical disorders
  7. anatomy of normal digestion
  8. Diagnostic test and what they mean
  9. What is my prognosis?
  Pt. III. Treating irritable bowel syndrome
  10. Treatment basics
  11. Diet
  12. Treatment for constipation
  13. Treatments for diarrhea
  14. Medications for pain, bloating, and overall symptoms
  15. Psychological, hypnotherapeutic, and psychiatric therapies
  16. Complementary and alternative medicine
  Pt. IV. Other issues
  17. IBS and children
  18. What does the future hold?