Multiple Causes of IBS

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the most common disorder seen in patients with gastrointestinal complaints, consists of altered bowel habits, such as diarrhea, constipation or alternation of the two, along with abdominal pain and intolerance to flatus, without any detectable organic disease. It should not be confused with colitis or other inflammatory diseases of the intestinal tract.

IBS is a functional gastrointestinal disorder in which abdominal pain is associated with a defect or a change in bowel habits. Gut inflammation is one of the proposed mechanisms of pathogenesis. Recent studies have described a possible role for protozoan parasites, such as Blastocystis hominis and Dientamoeba fragilis, in the etiology of IBS.

Dientamoeba fragilis is known to cause IBS-like symptoms and has a propensity to cause chronic infections but its diagnosis relies on microscopy of stained smears, which many laboratories do not perform, thereby leading to the misdiagnosis of dientamoebiasis as IBS. The role of B. hominis as an etiological agent of IBS is inconclusive, due to contradictory reports and the controversial nature of B. hominis as a human pathogen.

Although Entamoeba histolytica infections occur predominately in developing regions of the world, clinical diagnosis of amebiasis is often difficult because symptoms of patients with IBS may closely mimic those patients with non-dysenteric amoebic colitis. Clinical manifestations of Giardia intestinalis infection also vary from asymptomatic carriage to acute and chronic diarrhoea with abdominal pain.

These IBS-like symptoms can be continuous, intermittent, sporadic or recurrent, sometimes lasting years without correct diagnosis. It is essential that all patients with IBS undergo routine parasitological investigations in order to rule out the presence of protozoan parasites as the causative agents of the clinical signs.

IBS is multifactorial in its etiology and heterogeneous in its clinical presentation and pathogenesis. Previous gastroenteritis has been identified as the most important risk factor for IBS, and several studies reported that a substantial proportion of patients with gastrointestinal infection develops IBS symptoms, which can persist for several years.

Recent studies have demonstrated that a proportion of IBS patients without any history of enteritis has signs of immune activation in the gut. There is clinical overlap between IBS and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with IBS-like symptoms frequently reported in patients before the diagnosis of IBD, and a higher than expected percentage reports of IBS symptoms in patients in remission from established IBD.

Irritable bowel syndrome often disrupts daily living activities. Nineteen percent of respondents in a survey of married or cohabiting people with IBS stated they had difficulties in their personal relationships, and 45% stated that itinterfered with their sex life. The need for effective irritable bowel syndrome treatment is therefore of a high priority.

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