What are the treatment strategies for IBS?
There are several options for treatment modalities for management of IBS including conventional medicine, dietary restriction, behavioral and psychological approaches, relaxation therapy, meditation, hypnosis, herbal remedies, alternative medicine and homeopathy. When there are several treatment option for treatment of a particular disease, you can safely assume that none one of the options is ideal. If there was an ideal treatment for this condition, there would be no need for alternatives. That being said, there are many treatments that significantly reduce symptoms. You should know that there is no cure for IBS. The remedies, therefore, are geared toward the relief of symptoms. Treatment options generally decrease stimuli, increase the sensory threshold in response to the stimuli or offset the effects of stimuli.
