Did you know that nearly half of the population of the developed countries like USA and Canada suffer from the disorders caused by spastic colon? It is a chronic health problem that affects a number of people which is far greater than the number of population suffering from diabetes, asthma or depression.
At this point you are wondering what spastic colon actually is. Let us put it like this: It is a kind of dysfunction of colon in which the passage of wastes through the intestine is obstructed due to the changes in the normal pattern of muscular contractions of colon that mobilize wastes. Spastic colon is typically a functional disorder and not a disease, which implies that bowel movement is not occurring in a manner it should have been. The result is either constipation or diarrhea or in many cases a bout of both in alternate succession. The other symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, painful bowel movement and stool full of mucus. In women, there is a close relation between menstruation and attack of spastic colon. It has led the medical practitioners establish a correlation between hormonal changes and irritable bowel syndrome.
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