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[World #IBSAwarenessMonth] Dear #HCPs👩‍⚕️ & #Microbiota community👨‍🔬, April is dedicated to raising awareness about #IrritableBowelSyndrome

During the month, @Microbiota_Inst will provide you with content about #IBS, a common & complex #disease

#GutHealth #LetsTalkIBS #thread👇 Image
[World #IBSAwarenessMonth]

🔎 You will:
👉better understand the🔗between #IBS & #microbiota
👉discover potential ways to manage the #disease
👉learn to make a #diagnosis with our #CME courses, #videos & a professionally designed #tool
👉improve communication with your #patients
[World #IBSAwarenessMonth]

1️⃣ In this sequence, learn more about the link between #microbiota and #IrritableBowelSyndrome.

#IBS #MedTwitter #GITwitter #GutHealth #LetsTalkIBS #DGBI #FGID #GIfellows #TakeIBSSeriously

Take a look! 👇 Image
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@MondayNightIBD @DCharabaty 1/12
📣#GITwitter #IBDTwitter

Welcome back to #MondayNightIBD #Back2Basics w @dunleavy_katie @john_damianosMD

🎯How do you approach a pt w #IBD in remission who has new or persistent #GI symptoms?

Check out our review📜
practicalgastro.com/2022/05/18/rec…

#NeuroGI #GastroPsych #DGBI
@MondayNightIBD @DCharabaty @john_damianosMD 2/12 #MondayNightIBD #B2B

👩🏼‍⚕️have been studying “IBS-type symptoms” in #IBD for 30 yrs. But there is more work to be done to help characterize cohort & dz mechanism!

It’s important bc:
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Affects pts QoL, mental health, sleep
🥼Causes ⬆️HC utilization, ⬆️MD visits & 💊narcotics Image
@MondayNightIBD @DCharabaty @john_damianosMD @MarcelYibirin @VictorChedidMD @LauraRaffalsMD @Spencerkelley7 @RomyChamoun @JosephHabibi_MD @ayshaslam999 @GroverDheera @yaransarkis @BassiMehak 3/12 #MondayNightIBD Persistent/New GI Sx in #IBD
1⃣R/o active🔥/#IBD complication (abscess, stricture):🔦, 🩻, CRP, FCP, ⚠️R/o infx like C. Difficile!

2⃣🤔Consequences of✂️: adhesion, bile acid diarrhea

3⃣🤔 #DGBI
🚩25% pts w #IBD in endo remission have #IBS @LancetGastroHep Image
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Functional abdominal pain (centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome) by Dr. Brian Lacy at @AmCollegeGastro #ACG2021

#GITwitter #GI #FGID #DGBI
A common scenario!
Definitions
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Here are the new @BritSocGastro guidelines for #IBS in @Gut_BMJ! I'll summarize in 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️!

😖💩🦠🧠🥦🍞💊

#GITwitter #GI #gut #braingut #motility #DGBI #FGID #microbiome #probiotics #MedTwitter #MedEd

gut.bmj.com/content/early/…
🧑‍⚕️-😷
Doctor-patient communication
🧑‍⚕️A strong 🧑‍⚕️-😷 relationship is fundamental to the management of #IBS
😷Patients want their 🧑‍⚕️ to ⬆️empathy, support and information about the nature of IBS, diagnosis, and treatment options
DIAGNOSIS
🩸New pt: CBC, CRP or ESR, celiac serology and, if <45 w diarrhea, fecal calprotectin
➕Make POSITIVE diagnosis based on @RomeFoundation criteria
➡️Refer to #GI when: diagnostic doubt, pt w symptoms that are severe or refractory to 1stline tx,or when pt wants specialist
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Let's talk about something common, hard to treat, and often misunderstood: CHRONIC BLOATING AND DISTENSION!

A 🧵 summarizing from the excellent @AGA_CGH article cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…

#GI #GITwitter #motility #IBS #DGBI #FGID #microbiome #health #MedEd
🟢Bloating: subjective sensation of gassiness, trapped💨, or a feeling of pressure or being distended w/o obvious visible distension.

🟢Distension: objective physical manifestation of an⬆️in abdominal girth. Patients commonly say they look like 🎈 or 🤰
Bloating and distension are COMMON

🔴16-31% in the general population

🔴Women > men

🔴66-99% in #IBS

🔴IBS-C > IBS-D

🟢Bloating and distension are distressing to patients and ⬇️quality of life
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