Your Gut Feelings: A Complete Guide to Living Better with Intestinal Problems

By Henry D. Janowitz

Book Overview

Four out of ten people visit their doctor because of gastrointestinal complaints. These widespread disorders exact a high toll in pain, suffering, and expense. Written by one of the world's leading experts in gastroenterology, this revised and up-to-date edition of Your Gut Feelings focuses on the most common problems of the lower intestinal tract--the bowel or "gut"--offering new ways of coping with them and reliable approaches to prevention. In clear language, free of medical jargon, Dr. Janowitz describes the most advanced methods and instruments used in the treatment of the human colon and intestinal problems--including the newest research on diagnosis testing, medication, and surgical treatments--and outlines the risks they carry. He also explains how to determine whether to treat such day-to-day problems as gas, "belly-ache," diarrhea, and constipation at home or to bring them to a doctor's attention. Covering a wide range of current colonic and intestinal disorders from the most common, irritable bowel syndrome (often known as spastic colon), through the more serious complaints such as colon cancer and sexually transmitted disorders, Dr. Janowitz provides basic information on the symptoms and causes of each problem. With clear and useful diagrams, photographs, charts, and tables, this indispensable handbook is must reading for anyone who has ever been afflicted problems of the intestine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089367
• ISBN13: 9780195089363
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Don't know what's wrong? This book helps find answers!

I have been researching for answers to my personal intestinal problems for 4 years. This is one of my best resources. Easily understood. Everytime I go back to it, I learn something new. Helps fill in the blanks that the doctors don't explain aswell as give reasons for questions to ask your Doctor.

Clear and Understandable Guide

I use this book often, since like many Crohn's sufferers, I also deal with a broad spectrum of intestinal problems. In very clear and understandable language, Dr. Janowitz, a GI at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and the author of Indigestion and Good Foods for Bad Stomachs provides information on the symptoms and causes of an array of intestinal problems, including IBS, Crohn's & UC, diarrhea, constipation, rectal bleeding, colon cancer, food allergies, intestinal gas and more. He describes the latest tests and procedures (ie. colonoscopies, barium x-rays), medications, and surgical treatments and the risks each carry. This is one of my most used reference books on IBD and other problems, probably because he provides a lot of medical wisdom mixed with good common sense. On Thrive@Health's list of recommended reading for IBD

Good Overview for Someone New to IBD

Review of First Edition: This is a more general book covering other intestinal problems besides IBD, such as irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulosis, colon cancer, food allergies, the aging gut, gas, effects of medications on the gut, and the brain-gut connection. The illustrations of the digestive tract are well done and much less technical than the above book, It had some good information on the various places you can feel intestinal pain and what they likely indicate. The information on IBD is...good overview for someone new to the disease or someone still trying to figure out what their problem or problems might be.

A great book

I have GERD, ulcers, and inflammatory bowel. This book was a real lifesaver to me, especially when my doctor started talking about doing some diagnostic procedures - it was reassuring and I felt good knowing what I was talking about when I met with my doctor (I think I surprised him!). Great book!