Night work has the intestine

Our intestines, it turns out, also have their biological clock - found in a study by American scientists. At night, he needs rest, and do not eat and digest food. That's why people who work the night shift, often have problems with the stomach.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan found that working in night shift   Nurses, especially those who work on a rotating schedule (in the night, in the day), is much more common disorder of the digestive system such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome   ( IBS ).

As a result intestinal disorders   People suffering from pain in the abdomen, indigestion, bloating, flatulence and other unpleasant complications. IBS   It can be very difficult to cure, in addition it even more difficult to recognize because of themselves, these symptoms are found in every human being at some point in his life.

"We know that working in shifts, people often complain of abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea, - says professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Sandra Hugverf. - This classic symptoms   Irritable Bowel Syndrome ".

Hugverf colleagues divided the study into three groups of nurses. The first group included 214 people who were working only during the day, the second of 110 night shift And the third of 75 nurses who hold rotating schedule. The highest number of cases IBS   It was recorded at the last two groups, especially in shift workers.

"We know that we also have bowel the biological clock And that in the first six hours of day the likelihood of bowel above - said Professor Hugverf. - Shift work can cause chronic disruption of biological rhythms, "clock" will be all the time run off, so that the body will correct them regularly. And it is, and constipation, and pain and bloating, and diarrhea, and many other manifestations   IBS ".

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