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First Year: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, by Heather Van Vorous

     The First Year: Irritable Bowel Syndrome offers a comprehensive and sympathetic approach to managing a spastic colon (whether you're newly diagnosed or have been struggling for years), by an author who has dealt with the disorder since childhood and prevailed.

This essential guide explains how to prevent IBS symptoms, provides information about current research for a cure, and reassures readers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome that they are most definitely not alone. Whether you suffer from constipation, diarrhea, alternating bowel dysfunction, pain, bloating, gas, or nausea, The First Year: IBS gives you the information you need to take control of your spastic colon symptoms today.

An easy-to-follow daily/weekly/monthly calendar structure teaches you about the physical causes behind a spastic colon while giving a multitude of ways to successfully live with it, with a constant focus on spastic colon symptom prevention.


This book offers everything you need to control your IBS (spastic colon) and regain health and happiness, from someone who has personally lived with the disorder since childhood and effectively overcome the devastating symptoms.

The research for The First Year: IBS incorporates suggestions, concerns, and personal stories from many Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers, and offers:

* in-depth diagnostic and medical information for IBS treatments, drugs, and research
* innovative and successful IBS stress management techniques
* suggestions for dealing with friends and family members
* detailed Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet guidelines and recipes
* effective alternative therapies for a spastic colon, including IBS hypnotherapy
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome support group resources
* traveling and socializing
* empathetic lifestyle modification advice

There are also special sections throughout the book just for children with IBS and their parents. These chapters draw extensively from the author's own perspectives, experiences, and memories from childhood, and address the unique concerns that children with spastic colon often face.

The First Year: IBS provides comprehensive information that allows readers to take full advantage of the strategies they need to control their symptoms immediately. Each approach for managing a spastic colon is visited at length early on, and then dealt with in its various tangents as the book progresses through the calendar. Readers seamlessly move from the core issues of IBS symptom-control on a daily basis to expanding their lifestyle management abilities, gradually encompassing travel, work concerns, social events, restaurants, holidays, spastic colon research participation, and more. This book offers spastic colon sufferers a practical, effective shortcut to reaching a state of health, happiness, and confidence well within their first year.

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