[Spastic colon: a multi-factorial pathology, a polyvalent therapy]

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.