Why doctors can find anything wrong with IBS patients?
Doctors, particularly in the United States, are trained to look for physical manifestations, such as inflammation, obstruction, or bleeding. But, for a while, IBS displays none, particularly in younger patients. Despite this common knowledge, the diagnosing of IBS allows for a ton of billable services to seek out the clues: CBC [complete blood count], biochemical profile (including liver tests), ESR [erythrocyte sedimentation rate], stool examination for ova and parasites (in those with diarrhea predominance), thyroid-stimulating hormone and Ca for those with constipation, and flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy should be done advises Merck, and piles up even more tests to test the tests: Additional studies (such as ultrasound, CT [computer tomography], barium enema x-ray, upper GI esophagogastroduodenoscopy, and small-bowel x-rays) should be undertaken only when there are other objective abnormalities. All in all, that’s several thousand dollars worth of mostly irrelevant testing, w
