1.   An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.

2.   Even quite ordinary forms of stress can have an exaggerated effect on an irritable bowel.

3.   It is not difficult to imagine how a disorder such as irritable bowel syndrome could affect a patient psychologically.

4.   She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating, which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome.