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Dr. Conor Brady explains the key difference: IBS shows normal test results and stress-linked symptoms, while IBD causes visible inflammation and structural damage to the gut wall. One is functional, the other is a real disease you can see.
Dr. Conor Brady explains the key difference: IBS shows normal test results and stress-linked symptoms, while IBD causes visible inflammation and structural damage to the gut wall. One is functional, the other is a real disease you can see.
Yeah, so let's define the difference then between IBD, so inflammatory bowel disease, and IBS.
So IBS is irritable bowel syndrome because we're not quite sure what it is. It's where you have every test known to man and they can't find anything wrong with the gut, but the, the dog or the human still can't form a decent stool.
Yeah, so the classic with IBS is usually those people that are suffering some form of stress.
Yeah.
Usually exhibit the symptoms and when their stress gets worse, their symptoms get worse. Now, inflammatory bowel disease is more of a structural thing. So we're actually— we've got to a stage where there is structural change within the gut. And what I mean by that is that we are seeing infiltrates of inflammatory cells. Maybe we're seeing changes within the structure that signify inflammation is active and going on.
