Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
Description
- Excessive bacteria in the small bowel - colonic-type flora where there should be few organisms
- Symptoms: bloating, flatulence, abdominal distension and discomfort, diarrhoea; in severe cases steatorrhoea, weight loss, B12 deficiency
- *Enormously over-diagnosed - symptoms are identical to IBS, and the breath test is poor*
- Small intestinal fungal overgrowth and methanogen overgrowth (IMO - intestinal methanogen overgrowth) are related entities; IMO causes CONSTIPATION
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