Gastrointestinal

IBS AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: NERVOUS CONSTIPATION – THE RELAXATION RESPONSE

This has the same cause as nervous diarrhoea except that the train receives a different signal, so to speak. This time the instructions say ‘Tight muscles ahead, slow down activity’. You will remember that the initial instructions of the person preparing to run were, ‘I need more blood in my arms and legs so take [...]

ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION

Q. We hear so much about the endoscope these days. What is it, and what does examination entail? A. The endoscopes suddenly swirled across the medical horizon in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s became the most widely used form of investigation by the gastro-enterologists, the doctors who specialise in disorders of the G.I. [...]