Summer is the season for diarrhea, but don’t forget to consider irritable bowel syndrome when you have recurrent diarrhea, abdominal pain, or alternating recurrent diarrhea and constipation. Many people have experienced frequent abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating with constipation or diarrhea, and a feeling of incompleteness after defecation, but they have been to the hospital several times and no obvious problems can be detected. The more nervous you are, the more obvious the symptoms become, and this is “irritable bowel syndrome”. Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most common functional digestive disorders other than functional dyspepsia, especially among urban students, civil servants, intellectuals and other people engaged in stressful mental work, and is more common in women than men. Irritable bowel syndrome may be related to environmental factors, gastrointestinal hypersensitivity, impaired gastrointestinal dynamics, secretory function, infections and psycho-psychiatric factors. Dysentery, food poisoning, laxative abuse or enemas, alcohol consumption or consumption of cold or irritating foods can aggravate the condition. Irritable bowel syndrome can be easily triggered by the fast pace of life, mental tension, work pressure, disharmony in family life, socialization, and poor living habits. How to treat irritable bowel syndrome? If the symptoms are not serious, you can reduce them by improving your diet and changing your habits, eating more coarse fiber-containing foods (cereals, fruits and vegetables) and reducing the intake of high-fat meat. Eating smaller and more frequent meals and avoiding chilled drinks and fruits and fried foods can help reduce the occurrence of irritable bowel syndrome. Relaxing the nerves and exercising properly can also reduce the symptoms. Drug treatment is mainly symptomatic. For those with abdominal pain and diarrhea, Desutex and Pepcid can be used; for those with abdominal distension and constipation, Mosapride can be used; for those with significant anxiety, anti-anxiety drugs can be used. The prevention of irritable bowel syndrome begins with actively adjusting one’s mood, maintaining optimism and stability, and improving psychosocial adaptability to cope with various situations. You should participate in more outdoor activities, chat with friends and relatives, and know how to give your mood a proper vacation and decompress your heart. Second, pay attention to dietary hygiene. Do not eat spoiled, overnight, too cold or too hot food. Add coarse grains, vegetables and fruits containing coarse fiber to your diet. Coarse grains can accelerate the digestion of food, soften the stool, increase the volume of feces, and thus make the bowel movement smooth. Third, strengthen physical exercise. Choose a suitable exercise for yourself, adhere to the exercise, enhance physical fitness. Once the diarrhea worsens, panic, significant weight loss, anemia, low fever, black stool, etc., go to the hospital in time.