Diet and Life Style

Eat well 

The traditional dietary advice for treating constipation is to increase the amount of bulk or roughage in the diet.  This means:   

• Increasing the amount of cereal fibre.    

• Eating a bowl of oats with dried fruits (esp prunes and apricots) every morning.

• Sprinkling linseed onto your cereal

• Eat more fruit and vegetables.  Prunes and beetroot are particularly good at loosening the stool.  

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• But if you have IBS, Fibre can cause abdominal pain and bloating.  See why fibre isn’t always the answer.

Sometimes  extra fruit and vegetable can make symptoms of pain and bloating worse.  Click on FODMAPs