Our comments and notes on causes of constipation, osmotic laxatives and prokinetics.
Tag: IBS-c
Probiotic use can predispose to overgrowth of methanogenic bacteria.
Recent findings on methanogens and the use of probiotics in SIBO reflect our experience.
Insights from magnetic resonance imaging of the colon and small intestine.
We share some of our notes on how magnetic resonance imaging allows a better understanding of intestinal motility in health and disease.
Simethicone: “it is possible that the liberated GI gas is more readily absorbed through the intestinal mucosa into the blood stream because of the change in surface tension and the reduction of adherent mucus.”
Simethicone is an effective defoaming agent both in vitro and in vivo. Gas bubbles coalesce and are dispersed by means of its surface action.