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Dr Bridgette Wilson
Digestive Health UK
How to cure ibs with diet?
Bridgette Wilson explains that it is not possible to cure IBS with diet, but specific symptoms can be managed by assessing and changing your diet.
Transcript
With regards to IBS, we don't really talk about curing IBS. What we talk about with IBS is managing your symptoms. And, so what we would aim to do is in a consultation, work out what your specific symptoms are, and then provide dietary guidance to help you to better manage your symptoms. Symptoms such as diarrhoea can be treated quite quickly if we can remove the types of foods that could be leading to the diarrhoea. Symptoms such as constipation can take a little bit longer to treat because you would make gradual changes to your diet in order to improve that over the longer term.