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Symptoms That Are Common With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
As the food you eat makes its way through the digestive tract, is digested and nutrientsare absorbed. Digestion begins in the mouth where it is chewed up and then it makes itsway to the stomach where it is broken down by strong acids in the gut. Once the foodtravels through the intestines and reaches the colon, nutrients and water are absorbedthrough the colon wall and the food is formed into feces. Food that fails to be digested or absorbed during the digestive process will need to be eliminated as well.In functional diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, such asIrritable Bowel Syndrome, thedigestion of food is only carried out partially. Transportation is the most commonlyaffected process that takes place during digestion. Symptoms of nausea, vomiting,abdominal bloating, and abdominal enlargement usually signal that the transportation of food has slowed down. If transportation has increased, then the most likely symptom isdiarrhea.Your body has nerves that respond to signals that are carried through other nerves. If youhave diarrhea as a result of a rapidly emptying stomach, then your sensory nerves that are present in your intestine will signal that the emptying is too rapid so that a motor nerveresponds by slowing down the process. As a result, you may end up with symptoms of aslowly emptying stomach after having the symptoms common for a fast emptyingstomach.You can expect pretty much the same response when transportation is abnormally slow or rapid within the colon. In this area, however, there may also be an increase in the amountof mucus that coats the stool after a bowel movement or you may experience a sensationof not completely eliminating the stool from your colon.Sometimes the sensory nerves do not perceive the right message or the motor nerves maynot respond accordingly. If a message is not processed and perceived correctly, youcould end up with abdominal bloating or pain. Your motor nerves may incorrectlyreceive signals of slowed or rapid transportation when, in fact, there is neither.Sometimes there is bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine which leads to further complications of slowed transportation during the digestion of food. Normally, there aregas-producing bacteria that are normally restricted to the colon, but when there is bacterial overgrowth, these bacteria may move up into the small intestine. They will then be exposed to more undigested food that they use to turn into gas. This further aggravates the digestive tract and can increase the amount of abdominal bloating,diarrhea, and gas.Your gastrointestinal tract is limited in the number of ways it can respond to diseases.That means that whether you have a function or non-functional disease, the symptoms aregoing to be similar if not the same. To diagnose a functional disease, there are no
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