What are the symptoms of IBS with diarrhea?

What are the symptoms of IBS with diarrhea?

Lin Chang (UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases) gives expert video advice on: What are the three sub-types of irritable bowel syndrome?; What are the symptoms of IBS with diarrhea?; How is IBS with diarrhea treated? and more...

The symptoms of IBS with diarrhea mean that the patient has abdominal pain or discomfort. It has to be chronic or recurrent but it has to be associated with diarrhea symptoms, and that means it has to be associated with loose or watery stools or going to the bathroom more often than normal which would be more than three times per day. But typically, it is associated with loose watery stools. Other symptoms that the IBS with diarrhea patients can have is urgency. That's a very predominant symptom and one that I think is linked to impacting quality of life because that's when they feel like they need to go the bathroom. If you have really severe IBS diarrhea, you can have incontinence.