Treatments

A therapy of an irritable bowel syndrome or functional dyspepsia usually begins with the physicians' pep-talk, reassuring the patient, that these disorders are not at all a pre-stage of an upcoming disease or illness.

Since the exact cause behind these disorders hasn't been discovered yet, an "antidote" can't be prescribed. A therapy (concerning both disorders) is therefore designed to ease the pain and to find all symptom-triggering factors and exclude them. The latter is the patients' job. By finding out which foods he can stand and which give him pain; s/he does best by avoiding the intolerable foods. This first step generally already decreases the impact of the symptoms. Portioning the meals also helps. Accompanied by a long-endurance sport the therapy is said to be even more effective.

Besides paying special attention to ones diet, a patient should also consider consulting a psychotherapist, since the disorders are also due to outer stress and emotional stress. It is important to minimize stress or learn how to not let a situation become a stressful situation in the first place. This can be done with the help of special anti-stress or relaxation methods such as autogenous training, a breathing therapy or yoga.

By following this therapy and slowly changing ones lifestyle a patient could soon rid himself of his disorder. Since an according medication is still being researched on, there are only drugs available which ease acute and localised pain. The intake shoul be of short duration only.