Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) often feels like piecing together a puzzle without being able to visualize the final desired image. Patients poke at fixing separate symptoms while no one is tying the whole picture together. This creates difficulties when multiple systems come together like they do in the nutrition and waste mechanisms within the […]
Presenter: Dr. Eli Penn
Title: hEDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract
Manu Sood, MD
Katja Kovacic, MD
“Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders and Cyclic Vomiting”
Gisela Chelimsky, MD
“Hypermobile EDS and Gastrointestinal Issues”
Listen to Dr. Manu Sood’s webinar about Gastrointestinal Disorders in EDS. Dr. Sood has spoken at the EDNF Conference and been published on topics such as GI Motility Disorders, IBS and GERD.
Your input is needed for this very important EDS survey! Follow the link at the bottom of this article to take the survey. This survey on gastrointestinal issues is being conducted by a group of doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School. The goal is to better understand the bowel and stomach issues that might […]
Dr. Heidi Collins, EDS expert and patient, talks about how Ehlers-Danlos affects digestion, nutrition, bowel function, and gut-related immune function. She indicates that gastrointestinal complications of EDS are common, potentially disabling, under-appreciated by clinicians, and well-documented in existing literature. Learn more from her very informative video presentation. Be sure to watch all 6 presentations by […]