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SOURCES: Medical Reference from Medstar Television. American College of Gastroenterology. Irritable Bowel Syndrome Association. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Rifaximin (Xifaxan®).
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
It was just so difficult to live with.
Through tears, Cynthia Greenspan describes the frustration of irritable bowel syndrome.
I had a couch and there was indentations in it that I had made because I would just stay there. Couldn't eat, constant spasms in my stomach, gurgling. And then on the flip side, I'd still have the pain, or I'd be constipated.
Now Cynthia is finding relief thanks to a new antibiotic study at Cedars Sinai (SI-ni) Medical Center.
The antibiotic that we've most recently begun to study is called Rifaximin.
Unlike most antibiotics that are absorbed by the blood stream and travel to other parts of the body, Rifaximin (rah-FAX-ah-min) stays in the gut and kills bacteria in the small intestine – a possible cause of I-B-S.
We found that in the majority of IBS patients a special test called the lactulose breath test, which is a way to determine the level of bacteria in the small intestine, was positive. So we're trying to get rid of them from the small bowel hoping that the IBS will get better, and that's what we saw.
Patients received the drug for ten days. But symptom relief lasted 10 weeks -after- treatment stopped.
The importance of that is that it suggests we're treating a cause of IBS for the first time rather than simply compensating for diarrhea by slowing things down.
Gratitude for gaining a normal life.
I was all smiles and I was like thank you, thank you.
For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.>
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