Acute gastroenteritis increases the odds of developing functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), with the latter lasting 1-4 years in half of patients after the infection.
In a recent study published in the journal Neurogastroenterology, researchers examine the prevalence of post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) and post-infectious function dyspepsia (PI-FD) ...