From bloating to brain fog, a gut health expert explains what SIBO is and why diagnoses are suddenly everywhere.

Suffering from bellyaches? Gas? Bloating? You may have an overgrowth of bacteria in your small intestine. Called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, this condition may affect up to 80% of ...

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The small intestinal microflora are usually limited in number, less than 105 colony-forming units per mL of intestinal fluid. This number is somewhat arbitrary, because of the intense reluctance of ...

Many gastrointestinal illnesses can have very similar symptoms, making them difficult to diagnose. There is one illness, however, that has received more attention online than others, and the ...

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Background: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a condition in which excessive levels of bacteria, mainly the colonic-type species are present in the small intestine. Recent data suggest ...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a condition in which colonic microflora grows upward into the small intestine. It is associated with many intestinal and extraintestinal symptoms and ...

Dear Doctors: I've been seeing a lot of news stories lately about people who thought they had irritable bowel syndrome, but then it turned out to be something called "SIBO." I've never heard of that ...

Existing clinical evidence seems to suggest that SIBO may contribute to the pathophysiology of IBS. However, the reported incidence of SIBO varies according to the detection method employed. In ...