Season 1 · Episode 17
Digestive Symptoms in Pregnancy with Dr. Kumkum Patel
Let's Gut Real - Easy to Digest Nutrition Science · Andrea Hardy, RD
August 4, 202028m 51s
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Show Notes
Today I interview Dr. Kumkum Sarkar Patel on gut motility in functional gut disorders, what normal motility is, and how and why this changes in pregnancy.
Dr. Patel explains:
- what gut motility is
- what the timing for normal motility is
- types of tests to diagnose motility disorders & dysfunction
- reasons why gut motility changes
- self management of gut motility issues and why a diagnosis is so important
- why do disturbances in motility occur IBS and other functional gut disorders
- how does pregnancy influence motility in the gut
- common gut symptoms in pregnancy
- what to do during and after pregnancy to manage digestive symptoms
- the overlap between pregnancy and an IBS diagnosis