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Patient Information Leaflets
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Constipation
Dietary advice on how to reduce constipation for patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Diarrhoea
Dietary advice on how to reduce diarrhoea for patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Low FODMAP diet
Explains what the low FODMAP diet is for patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Wind and bloating
Dietary advice on how to reduce wind and bloating for patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Liver disease and diet
Dietary advice for those with a damaged or diseased liver - increasing energy, protein and other nutrients in order to maintain or improve your nutritional status
Looking after a balloon gastrostomy tube (AMT 14FR)
How to look after an AMT 14FR balloon gastrostomy feeding tube
Low fibre diet for patients with a new ileostomy
Gives advice, dietary tips and recipes for people with a newly formed ileostomy (stoma)
Low residue diet for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Advice on avoiding foods that are high in fibre and produce a lot of waste (residue)
Managing wind (flatus incontinence)
Outlines some possible causes of excessive flatus (wind) and gives advice on minimising and managing it
Meckel's diverticulum scan as an outpatient (adults)
A nuclear medicine test involving radiation that is used to diagnose Meckel’s diverticulum - a pouch in the lower part of the small intestine
Methotrexate Apr23
Medication used to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Modifying fibre in your diet
How modifying the amount of fibre you eat can help to improve some symptoms of certain bowel conditions
MRI enterography
What to expect during a test that uses an MRI scanner to produce images of the small bowel.
Nausea and vomiting - Help with eating if you have nausea and vomiting
Advice on preventing and controlling nausea and vomiting
Obstructed defaecation syndrome (ODS)
Information, advice and exercises about ODS – also called anismus, dyssynergic defaecation, pelvic floor dyssynergia or anorectal dysmotility
Oesophageal cancer treatment options
What is likely to happen if you have been diagnosed with a suspected cancer of the oesophagus (gullet)
Oesophageal cancer: Having a stent to help with swallowing
What is likely to happen if you have been diagnosed with a suspected cancer of the oesophagus
Oesophageal dilatation
A procedure to stretch the gullet to allow you to eat and drink better
Oesophageal dilatation aftercare advice
Advice following an oesophageal dilatation– a stretch of your gullet
Oesophageal manometry tests
Explains what happens during an oesophageal manometry test and how to prepare for it