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Summer Travel with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Published by tummyblogger July 27th, 2007 in fiber, Amazon, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS Triggers, IBS food, Online sources

Summer Travel has a number of hazards for a person with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

  • Traveler’s Diarrhea
  • Chancy Diet
  • Stress
  • Absence of facilities
  • Getting over-tired
  • Did I say stress?

First of all, avoid carbonated drinks and ice water. And, drink plenty of cool, not cold, water.

One element of the travel kit that I have used with success–and there’s no payoff for mentioning this other than that you may find it helpful, too–is Equalactin. This product consists of chewable tablets that equalize the water content in the large bowel (intestine, colon). Equalactin works to prevent tipping the balance from where you are generally comfortable to discomfort or disaster. Equalactin doesn’t do the whole job but it certainly helps.

You add it to your IBS kit together with enough soluble fiber for your trip. Those small travel bottles in travel kits often help.

Then you add a few envelopes of organic instant oatmeal (see my Amazon page), some rice crackers, and perhaps some rice cakes. These will calm the gastrocolic reflex, and substitute for a meal when you can’t get to food.

And have a good time. That is, after all, the best stress reliever.

On the absence of facilities, stores and restaurants in many states are now required by law to make their restrooms available to people who come in because of an imperative need to use the restrooms. See GastroGirl’s recent column on this at Revolution Health.

I push the envelope all the time on overdoing it, blogging into the wee hours, staying up with a book, spending a night out with friends or family–and then getting up early the next morning to do necessary stuff like (recently) allergy testing. Just saying: cool it with this stuff on your vacation. If you stay up, or stay out, late, sleep in as long as you can the next morning.

As for chancy diet, please resist the ball-park frankfurters and other summer foods laden with fats, wheat, and such. Print out and take along the list on the IBS Triggers page here.

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