Other natural remedies that help treat IBS?
In addition to ginger, there are many other natural remedies that people use for the management of IBS symptoms. Depending on your symptoms as well as what’s practical for you, you can try some of the following ways to relieve symptoms at home.
Dietary and lifestyle changes
- Avoid trigger foods: There are some foods that can trigger your IBS symptoms, it is important that you avoid them. Some of these foods include alcohol, chocolate, dairies, and some vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower.
- Minimize caffeine: Caffeine [4] is not recommended if you have IBS, it has a stimulating effect on your digestive system and may worsen diarrhea.
- Exercise more: Exercise can help improve IBS symptoms by helping reduce stress, improving your sleep, and encouraging bowel movements.
- Minimize stress: If you have IBS you are likely to experience a flare-up of symptoms during periods of high stress. This can also disrupt the improvement of your condition.
- Eat smaller meals: Eating smaller meals may help prevent overstimulating your digestive tract and help reduce your symptoms.
- Eat more probiotics: Although more research is needed to understand whether probiotics can improve IBS symptoms. Some types of probiotics may improve symptoms of some types of IBS.
- Reduce your intake of fried or spicy foods: Spicy and fried foods may irritate your gut and make your symptoms worse.
- Follow the Low-FODMAP diet: FODMAP [5] stands for fermentable oligo-, di-, mono-saccharides, and polyols. Avoiding these types of carbohydrates helps some people with IBS reduce their symptoms.