The effect of lifestyle and eating habits on irritable bowel syndrome
ZHENG Jie
DANG Tong
Abstract：Objective To investigate the effect of lifestyle and eating habits on irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS) .Methods One hundred and five patients diagnosed as IBS by gastrointestinal endoscopy in our hospital from February 2015 to May 2015 and were collected as IBS group.Other 96 patients without IBS were collected as the con-trol group.All the patients received the questionnaires designed by RomeⅢdiagnostic criteria to study the food hab-its and lifestyles related to IBS.The influencing factors of IBS were examined by the Logistic analysis.Results Cold food(60.00%), spicy food(51.43%), rich food(37.14%), milk(28.57%), meat(20.00%), drinking wine (20.00%), tea(14.29%) and yogurt(14.29%) predisposed the patients to IBS.There were significant differences between the two groups in eating breakfast, fruits and vegetables, in smoking and daily consumption of drinking water (P<0.05).However, there was no significance difference in eating staple food between the two groups(P>0.05). The protective factors of IBS included eating breakfast, fruits and vegetables, and drinking appropriate water every day.Smoking is the risk factor of IBS.Conclusion A healthy lifestyle and proper diet are helpful for preventing the symptoms of IBS.
Keywords：Irritable bowel syndrome( IBS)LifestyleEating habits
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 301-304 )