Until following a gluten free diet, many people who suffer with coeliac disease have loose bowels and may never have experienced constipation before. However, once diagnosed and following a gluten free diet, they may notice that they actually start having problems with going to the loo. So what is causing this? Are they still having gluten…
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How To Prepare For Your Dietitian Consultation – The Food Treatment Clinic
Seeing a dietitian can be quite literally life changing if you get the correct dietary advice to suit your needs. Dietitians are trained to extract the vital information that they need from you, but it can still be quite a challenge at times. If the dietitian fails to get all the correct information, they may draw…
How to Get an Official IBS Diagnosis
(Update 30.01.2020 by Kirsten Jackson Consultant Dietitian) Whilst irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is quite a common condition, the symptoms alone are not specific enough for a diagnosis to be made. Similar symptoms can be seen in bowel cancer, allergies, Chron’s disease, ulcerative colitis, coeliac disease and small bowel bacterial overgrowth. Therefore, not having a correct…
How You Can Beat The Bloat | THE IBS DIETITIAN
Updated June 2022 by Serena Bansal Registered Dietitian BSc Hons Bloating is an annoying symptom that affects most of us some point in our lives, and for the unfortunate few, it affects us on a daily basis. It leaves us feeling tired, sluggish and in some cases with a painful, windy stomach. The reason most…