IBS screener · 3 minutes
Irritable bowel syndrome screener (Rome IV-informed)
Reflect on the past 3 months. Eight short questions covering pain pattern, bowel-habit changes, and impact. Result tells you whether the pattern matches IBS criteria and at what severity.
How often do you have abdominal pain or discomfort?
Educational tool — not a diagnosis. Screener informed by the Rome IV criteria for IBS (Drossman et al. 2016) plus IBS-SSS severity dimensions. Diagnosis remains clinical and requires exclusion of organic disease.
Frequently asked
Plain-language answers about ibs, this screener, and what evaluation costs at a Class A hospital in China.
- What are the Rome IV criteria for IBS?
- Recurrent abdominal pain on average ≥1 day per week in the last 3 months, associated with two or more of: (1) pain related to defecation, (2) change in stool frequency, (3) change in stool form. Symptom onset ≥6 months before diagnosis. Subtypes (IBS-D, IBS-C, IBS-M, IBS-U) are based on predominant stool form.
- When is colonoscopy needed?
- Alarm features (age > 50 with new symptoms, GI bleeding, weight loss, anaemia, family history of colon cancer or IBD, nocturnal symptoms) warrant endoscopic workup. Colonoscopy at a Class A international department is typically USD 260–420 vs USD 1,800–4,500 US.
- What treatments are available?
- Class A gastroenterology departments offer the full evidence-based pathway: low-FODMAP diet trial, fibre, antispasmodics, peppermint oil, gut-directed CBT or hypnotherapy, rifaximin for IBS-D, linaclotide / lubiprostone / prucalopride for IBS-C, low-dose tricyclics or SSRIs as neuromodulators.
About this screener
Screener informed by the Rome IV criteria for IBS (Drossman et al. 2016) plus IBS-SSS severity dimensions. Diagnosis remains clinical and requires exclusion of organic disease.
What this screener covers
- Irritable bowel syndrome(ICD-10 K58)
Validated source
Medical review
Reviewed by Panda Touring Care medical team (Gastroenterology coordinator review) · last reviewed 2025-04-01
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