What are other names for IBS?

What are other names for IBS?

Lin Chang (UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases) gives expert video advice on: What is 'irritable bowel syndrome' or IBS?; What does 'irritable' mean in terms of IBS?; What is a 'bowel'? and more...

IBS has been termed with different names in the past before it was really accepted as IBS. Conditions such as spastic colitis, mucous colitis, and spastic colon are all terms that physicians have given patients with the condition. Other times patients will not be given this diagnosis but will term their IBS symptoms as sensitive stomach or nervous stomach, even though that is really not the name of the condition.