Nutrition and Your Patients’ Bowels (for the non-nutrition clinician!)
Alyssa Tait2021-02-17T14:14:47+10:00Your first patient (prolapse) has chronic constipation, with bowels about as lively as an overstuffed armchair. Your second patient (faecal incontinence) has chronic diarrhoea, and every medical investigation under the sun comes up with a shoulder shrug.*Everyone knows you should increase fibre in constipation.* (Except when increasing fibre causes worse problems…) *In chronic diarrhoea, more fibre would logically be the last thing the patient needs.* (Except when fibre is the therapeutic solution…) Holy [...]