I like the point in the article about one's parents expressing more health complaints very often. Quote:
More frequent attention to mild physical symptoms can be learned, however, and can become a habit. As with most things, such habitual over-attention is probably most easily learned in childhood. It would seem reasonable, for example, that a child could get into the habit of noticing physical symptoms more if his or her parents are always talking about their own symptoms. We have recently found(13) that the more medical problems the parents in the childhood home had, the more general physical symptoms adult IBS patients report. The possible consequence of a childhood where the child grew up with parents or others who were seriously ill, is a tendency to interpret common normal physical sensations as symptoms of serious illness. Such a serious view of symptoms can also be modeled after the parent's approach to common illness. Dr. Whitehead and colleagues found in a telephone survey of 832 adults 20 years ago(14) that people whose parents paid more attention to cold or flu symptoms in childhood were more likely to view such symptoms as serious in adulthood and to visit doctors for them. They were also more likely to have IBS diagnosis.
-------------------- IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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