[Therapy for irritable bowel syndrome: focus on butylbromide hyoscine. A review]

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a widespread bowel disease, associated with a significant decrease in patients' quality of life. The etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and treatment strategies of IBS have not been studied sufficiently. Current clinical guidelines list antispasmodics as medications for abdominal pain management, the main symptom of IBS. Both in Russian and foreign clinical guidelines of IBS, among the antispasmodic drugs, hyoscine butylbromide is regarded as an effective and safe medicine for abdominal pain management. Hyoscine butylbromide has a broad spectrum of applications in gastroenterology. This fact determines its advantages in terms of drug choice for treating patients with comorbidities involving digestive system pathologies. The use of hyoscine butylbromide is especially relevant in light of the frequent occurrence of a combination of IBS and functional disorders of the biliary tract, since the antispasmodic is also recommended for biliary pain management.