Dietary fiber and low-FODMAP diets improve irritable bowel syndrome with constipation
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Clinical evidence indicates that specific types of dietary fiber and low-FODMAP diets can improve symptom severity and bowel habits in patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C).
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Dietary fiber in irritable bowel syndrome (Review)
2017 · cited by 159
Paper [8] states that soluble, moderately fermentable dietary fiber such as psyllium improves overall symptoms in IBS and increases fecal mass and peristalsis helpful for constipation.
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A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial of Microbiome-Based Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Personalized Diet vs Low-Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides, and Polyols Diet: A Novel Approach for the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
2024 · cited by 45
Paper [9] reports that a low-FODMAP diet exhibits significant improvements in IBS symptom severity scores specifically for the IBS-Constipation (IBS-C) subtype.