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DR. TARR:
Irritable bowel syndrome is also
call spastic colon. It is not inflammatory
bowel disease, it is not ulcerative colitis, it
is not Crohn's disease. Again, like I said,
it's found in about 15 percent of the
population.
However, there have been some
data from Europe published in the British Medical
Journal, which is in your handout list that
suggested that an acute gastrointestinal event,
acute bacterial gastroenteritis, mostly Salmonella,
can trigger IBS - And I wouldn't be surprised if
E. coli could also trigger irritable bowel
syndrome. It is not known if this IBS will
become a lifelong problem.
