title: [Spastic colon: a multi-factorial pathology, a polyvalent therapy].
abstract: Irritable bowel syndrome represent the most common gastrointestinal disease. It is characterized by abdominal pain, distension and abnormalities of intestinal transit. It is a functional disorder determined by emotional stress and by diet. The treatment is polyvalent, dietary, medicinal and psychological. In the medicinal domain the anti-spasmodics (anti-nicotinic and musculotropic), represent the first choice weapons in association or not with an anxiolytic, an anti-depressor, even an antalgic in the acute phase.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne, Cliniques Universitaires Erasme, U.L.B.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sternon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Le côlon spastique: une pathologie multifactorielle, une thérapeutique polyvalente.