Salicylates intolerance IBS

It's an interesting subject overthehill.

NHS advice is not to take ibuprofen if you have a history of a strong, unpleasant reaction (hypersensitivity) to aspirin or other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs. Patients with IBD are advised not to take ibuprofen. It can cause ulcers in your stomach or gut.

In conversation with an anaesthetist about post-operative pain relief, his advice was not to take ibuprofen but to use paracetomol.

In other words, both aspirin and ibuprofen are bad for the gut.

I've never been able to tolerate asprin as it made me nauseous and not long ago I bought some concentrated cranberry tablets for recurring UTIs. I discovered they have the same effect and contain salicylic acid.
Ibruprofen doesn't have salicylic acid in though and is fine with me.

Silver bridge, well I wasn't aware I was and have taken it in the past along with ibuprofen the same family for a back injury. I will avoid in future though

overthehill yes what a game it all is, at present I have gone gluten and lactose free to see what happens and so far so good. The GP is generally not much help unless blood is involved and one friend seems to take a lot of Imodium. As you say it takes a lot of work to find out what is in everything but I hope your present attempt works, will be interested to hear.

Are you allergic to aspirin? I'm wondering because aspirin is, as you probably know, salicylic acid used to relieve pain and inflammation and reduce fever. Aminosalicylates in the form of 5-ASAs are commonly used to treat inflammatory bowel disease - IBD - not to be confused with IBS, but diarrheaa can be a side effect of taking them.