Loose Stools over 3 weeks
Loose stools for many days
Having an unpredictable bowel habit is very disconcerting. It ruins your personal, professional as well as social life. You have a right to become normal, and a specialist would be able to find the contributing cause to what others have labelled as “IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome”.
At the outset, you need to know that in case you have “Alarm Signs” – weight loss, anemia, tiredness, painless blood in stools or black colored stools; you need to be investigated right away – this could be serious.
However, very often it may not be serious. You may just need a detailed interview with a specialist, and often just going through the history of the illness and your health record, the cause could be found. It may even be a medication given with good intent for another illness that could itself not be suiting you; else does not “mix” with the others. Even simpler, some food is the cause, and just an elimination diet be the answer.
