How about seeing the doctor TOMORROW?

Ken Ken is having diarrhoea again... Which is due to stomach flu... Sigh... He's having stomach flu so frequently ever since he had appendicitis...

He has decided to see a doctor to find out what is the real problem. However, there was a large crowd in the clinic.

This is the converstion between the clinic nurse and myself this morning:
Myself: "Is the queue very long?"
Clinic nurse: "Yes, it's going to be a long wait."
Myself: "Oh..." (I'm still wondering whether to wait or not to wait.)
Clinic nurse: "Why not your leave your name here?" (She pushed a pen and a diary in front of me.)
Clinic nurse: "And come again TOMORROW."

What a joke??!! I didn't know that seeing a doctor can wait till TOMORROW.

Anyway, we decided to see another doctor, as we don't think it is possible to wait till the next day to see the doctor while having the discomfort of diarrhoea.

After consultation with the doctor, we learnt that this frequent stomach flu could be due to IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. A series of regulator and some other diarrhoea medicine were presribed. Ken Ken will have to observe thru the week and hopefully this regulator can help to regulate his bowel habits.



"In gastroenterology, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder characterized by abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits which are not associated with any abnormalities seen on routine clinical testing. It is fairly common and makes up 20-50% of visits to gastroenterologists. Lower abdominal pain, and bloating associated with alteration of bowel habits and abdominal discomfort relieved with defecation are the most frequent symptoms. The abdominal pain type is usually described in a patient as either diarrhea-predominant (IBS-D), constipation-predominant (IBS-C) or IBS with alternating stool pattern (IBS-A). In some individuals, IBS may have an acute onset and develop after an infectious illness characterised by two or more of the following: fever, vomiting, diarrhea, or positive stool culture. This post-infective syndrome has consequently been termed "post-infectious IBS" (IBS-PI) and is acute onset Rome II criteria positive. This condition is more homogeneous, being mostly IBS-D and is drawing much clinical investigation." -- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia