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Also known as irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome or spastic colitis, irritable bowel syndrome affects 15-20% of the general population and has an "annual incidence of" 1-2% (essentially, every year , the new cases are maximum 2 every 100 people).
Women suffer most from irritable bowel syndrome: according to some statistical surveys, in fact, female patients are at least twice as many as males.
The typical age of irritable bowel syndrome patients is between 20 and 30 years.
- Abdominal pain and cramps, which tend to subside with defecation;
- Feeling of bloating in the stomach (abdominal distension);
- Meteorism;
- Diarrhea and / or constipation (or constipation). It is very common for the patient to alternate between days of diarrhea and days of constipation;
- Presence of mucus in the stool;
- Feeling of incomplete bowel emptying, after defecation;
- Urgency to evacuate after meals.
Irritable colon often causes symptoms that "come and go"; in other words, the condition intersperses periods in which the symptoms are evident and striking, to periods in which the clinical manifestations are almost or completely absent (so much so as to suggest a spontaneous recovery).
From the symptomatic point of view, each patient with irritable bowel syndrome represents a case in itself: some patients suffer exclusively from abdominal pain and abdominal cramps, others complain of all the typical symptoms mentioned above, others still report pain, cramps, meteorism and " alternation of diarrhea-constipation. All this makes it difficult to formulate a typical symptom picture and to identify the condition in the diagnostic setting.
