This is a professional website developed by clinicians who diagnose and treat the majority of patients with serious bowel disease in the UK and Ireland
People experience all sorts of bowel symptoms but there are three
KEY symptoms to identify more serious bowel disease - ask yourself – do you have:
- Bleeding from the bottom
- Change in your bowel habit - including constipation and diarrhoea
- Abdominal discomfort or pain
If you have any of these three
KEY symptoms, click on your
AGE below. If not try clicking on the left side of this page on 'More on Bowel Symptoms' to see if your bowel symptom is listed - if you are still unsure what to do see your GP.
This new website is intended to be helpful – it is advisory only, based on over 30,000 people with bowel symptoms attending hospitals in the Portsmouth area of South England. We hope you find it useful and would appreciate your feedback
Important: if your symptoms are severe and you also feel generally unwell or the symptoms keep coming back – see your doctor Begin the symptoms checker by clicking on your age: