After you click the link above, scroll down to Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( IBS) on their website.
Pam’s Notes:
1. How do you respond to doctors who still say IBS is just anxiety?
2. Anti-depressant use.
3. Lack of funding in research.
4. Diagnosing IBS, stigma, controversies in GI.
5. Elemental Diet (mBIOTA Elemental)
6. Breath test correlates with the microbiome.
7.Blood test for IBS( anti vinculin antibodies).
8.Antivinculin and Jay Pasricha MD( Mayo AZ) sees in gastroparesis patient.
9.His book.( new book 2022 The Microbiome Connection
10. Does IBS run in families? ( genetic predisposition).
11. Autoimmune disease is more prevalent in women.
12. Autoimmune Thyroid disease and RA are associated with more IBS &SIBO.
13. Defining IBS. He would like to see us move from symptoms to clusters of diseases.
14. With gastroparesis, paralysis doesn’t stop at the stomach.
15. Do you foresee a name change for IBS? ( AGA committee to reclassify cluster of diseases that make up IBS.
16. Bloating.
17. Men with IBS have more diarrhea and mixed bowel habits.
18. Colonic inertia is not IBS and all women.
19. Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, now has a Pediatric Motility Expert. (Alice C. Huang, MD)
Patient Q and A
1. T1Diabetes & SIBO, Metformin for PCOS?
2. Antivinculin blood test can also affect the nerves of the colon, hence constipation
When it’s over 3, it’s characteristic of pseudo-obstruction.
3. Access to blood test( IBSSmart.com ) and breath test (Triosmartbreath.com).
4. Stevia, freshly made from dried leaves? Non-absorbable sugar that ferments.
5. Rifaximin taken long term?
6. If you have a motility disorder, you will be more prone to SIBO.