Journal Title: تابستان 89
Article title: Review of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment

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Background and Objectives: Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorders striking 10-20% of the world population. Although most patients do not take medical assistance this disease enforces significant cost on the patient and health systems and has negative effects on quality of life of the individual. After diagnosis treatment of this disease is the next step. Many pathways of treatment has been introduced and the efficacy of each other has been established in one way or another. The first step in the path of treatment is education and confidence of patients that might also be the most important step. Fiber diet probiotic anti-cholinergic and anti antispasmodics laxatives anti-diarrhea the drugs affecting serotonin receptors antidepressants and anti-anxiety the chloride channel activator and non-drug methods such as cognitive-behavior therapy hypnotherapy acupuncture and herbal medicine each of which has been tested on irritable bowel syndrome and efficacy of each one has been indicated in one way or another. This paper tried to outline new treatments available in addition to categorization and discussion of various treatments for irritable bowel syndrome. Keywords: Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Probiotics; Parasmpatholytics; Laxatives.
Article keyWords:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Probiotics; Parasmpatholytics; Laxatives.
Article Authors:

	AH Ghanuni	First Author
	MR Ghadir	Corresponding Author	ghadir@muq.ac.ir