The Good Gut Guide: Help for IBS, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease, Diverticulitis, Food Allergies and Other Gut Problems. Stephanie Zinser

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Excerpt

Foreword

How I Came to Write This Book

Introduction

SECTION 1

       Having trouble with your guts?

       What it means and what you can do about it

CHAPTER 1

       A quick anatomy lesson

CHAPTER 2

       Common symptoms

Constipation

       Diarrhoea

       Nausea

       Bleeding

       Mucus

       Abdominal pain

       Pain in the back passage

       Wind and bloating

       Urgency, frequency and incomplete evacuation

       Itchy bottom

CHAPTER 3

       How to get the best from your doctor

CHAPTER 4

       Investigating the problems – a look at tests, scans and ’scopes

       SECTION 2

       The medical possibilities

       CHAPTER 5

       How lifestyle can affect the digestive system

       Drinking too much alcohol

       Stress

       Athlete’s diarrhoea

       Changes in routine

       Ignoring the urge to go

       Talting antibiotics

       (Over)use of aspirin

       Prescription and non-prescription drugs

       CHAPTER 6

       How diet and nutritional problems affect the digestive system

       Chronic dehydration

       Caffeine

       Fibre

       Strongly coloured foods and ‘false’ bleeding

       Inadequate nutrition through malabsorption

       Food allergy and intolerance

       Lactose intolerance (hypolactasia)

       Coeliac disease

       CHAPTER 7

       How problems of the reproductive system can affect your guts

       Period pains

       Constipation during pregnancy

       Chlamydia

       Endometriosis

       Ovarian