Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS or spastic colon) is defined as a bowel disorder that manifests itself in symptoms such as chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and disruption of bowel movements without any detectable organic cause.
With pregnancy seeming to impact practically all the systems of the body, so is the connection between IBS and pregnancy.
Consider the fact that one third of pregnant women experience more frequent bowel movements than normal and similar proportion experiences constipation.
So it isn’t necessarily the IBS and pregnancy combination that is responsible; rather it is the hormonal upheavals experienced by a pregnant woman that could be responsible for the various gastrointestinal changes/disturbances.
There has been relatively less research done on the subject of IBS and pregnancy, however one survey was able to demonstrate that pregnancy seemed to have a positive impact on women who suffer from IBS – while half the respondents claimed that their IBS symptoms were seen to improve during pregnancy, about a fifth of the those who answered the survey claimed that their symptoms got worse with pregnancy.
For IBS and pregnancy, a conservative treatment is usually recommended –
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