6 Tips for Caring for a Loved One with a Feeding Tube
Providing care for a child or other loved one with a serious health condition is no easy task and adding tube feeding into the mix can make it seem almost impossible. If your loved one is going to be starting…
Taking Care of You and Your Family During the COVID-19 Crisis
Gastro Girl is committed to empowering patients and their caregivers with news and information from trusted, credible sources. Please see the curated list below for coronavirus-related news, information and resources aimed to help you and your loved ones during this…
6 Self-Care Strategies for Caregivers
If you are a caregiver to someone with a digestive condition, the mental and emotional strain can be a heavy burden. You may have found that all of your free time is now consumed by caring for someone else and…
4 Ways to Support Someone Living with IBD
Having a friend, family, member or significant other with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can make you feel helpless. You want to do everything you can to support them, but you just don’t know how. Here are four ways to be…
4 Things to Do If Your Child Has Celiac Disease
If your child has recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, you may be feeling overwhelmed with everything you need to do. What are you going to pack them for lunch? What if one of their teachers gives them gluten? What…
Patient Voices: Living with Gastroparesis: A Little Hope Goes a Long Way
This article first appeared in the The American College of Gastroenterology Blog. Diagnosed 12 years ago with idiopathic gastroparesis at age 23 after her graduation from Dartmouth College, Crystal M. Saltrelli worked with her physicians to address her severe symptoms,…
Achieving Effective Patient-Provider Communication with Dr. Drossman
One of the greatest problems that emerges with continually decreasing amounts of time that clinicians can spend with patients include the inability to: 1) obtain sufficient high quality information about the illness and 2) have quality time to establish…
Experts Call for Critical Steps to Improve Patient Care for Gastroparesis
A recent article in The American Journal of Gastroenterology acknowledges unmet needs at both the patient care and systems level (e.g., trial design level) related to gastroparesis, with the authors stressing that medical therapy for the treatment of gastroparesis is less…
ACG Urges African Americans Age 45+ Not to Wait—Get Screened Now For Colon Cancer
The American College of Gastroenterology urges all African Americans age 45+ not to wait and to get screened now for colorectal cancer. One of the most vital messages ACG said it will share during March Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is…
Vitamin D May Help IBS Patients Find Relief
Vitamin D supplementation may help relieve symptoms for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to researchers from the University of Sheffield in England who found a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in IBS patients worldwide. Read abstract Investigators…
Expert Task Force Ranks Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
In its latest recommendations, the US Multi-Society Task Force (MSTF) on Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening confirms that people at average risk should be screened beginning at age 50, and recommends colonoscopy and fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) as the “first tier”…
Ask a Registered Dietitian Your Questions on Enjoying a Low FODMAP Cocktail Party
You may have mastered grocery shopping, but are you still freaked out when it comes to attending a cocktail party? I want you to enjoy yourself, and even have a cocktail, so I am going to share my top tips…