CHICAGO—Two different restrictive diets improved irritable bowel syndrome symptoms better than optimized medical therapy in the randomized Car-IBS trial.
“Dietary treatment seems a reasonable first-line option in IBS,” said lead investigator Sanna Nybacka, PhD, RD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden. Although diets with some food restrictions often are advocated in the treatment of IBS, she said