Compare and contrast

  • IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
    • Physical Syndrome
  • IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    • Functional Disease
   

IBS

Irritable
Bowel
Syndrome

 

IBD

Inflammatory
Bowel
Disease

 Physical changes   

 Can be seen

Physical
Syndrome

  

 Cannot be seen

Functional
Disease

   

usually steady
one or the other

diarrhea
or
constipation

 

alternating
between

diarrhea
and
constipation

 Age    young people    young people

Features:

  •  Pain
  •  location
 

 Syndrome

 Crohn's         

  • often right side

 Ulcerative      

  • often left side

 IBS

Irratable
Syndrome

  • stress
  • Foods
  • muscles
  • infections
  • hormones
  • immune sys

 

 

Physical

 

 Disease

 

 

  •  Both sides

 

 IBD

Functional
Disease

  • fever
  • Foods
  • blood
  • ulcers
  • fatigue
  • bleeding
  • cramping
  • infections
  • immune sys

Functional

 Progress    not changing    gets worse over time

Similar Symptoms

  • Pain
  • Bloating
  • Urgency
  • Diarrhea or
  • Constipation
  • Long-term