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A daily vitamin D supplement could help reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel disease (IBD), a study has found.<\/p>\n

Encompassing two conditions \u2013 Crohn\u2019s disease and ulcerative colitis \u2013 IBD causes inflammation of the digestive tract, leading to severe pain, diarrhoea, exhaustion and weight loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is believed to be driven, in part, by the immune system reacting to normally harmless bacteria in the gut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The condition is usually managed with medications that reduce inflammation, alongside lifestyle adjustments or, if it has caused serious damage in the digestive tract, surgery.<\/p>\n

More than half a million Britons suffer with the disease \u2013 a figure that has increased by 30 per cent in the past decade.<\/p>\n

But experts at the Mayo Clinic in Florida<\/a> say vitamin D supplements may provide a simple solution.<\/p>\n

The body creates vitamin D from sunlight on the skin.<\/p>\n

In a trial, patients with irritable bowel disease who were given the tablets over a 12-week period saw their symptoms decrease.<\/p>\n

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A daily vitamin D supplement could help reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel disease (IBD), a study has found (file image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr John Mark Gubatan, the study\u2019s lead author and gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic, said: \u2018We wanted to see if vitamin D could control the way the immune system communicates with gut bacteria in patients with IBD.\u2019<\/p>\n

Blood and stool samples were collected before and after 48 participants received vitamin D supplements, and analysed for immune responses within the gut microbiome.<\/p>\n

After 12 weeks, the researchers found that the participants\u2019 protective immune responses had improved, while their gut inflammation had decreased.<\/p>\n

Their levels of regulatory immune cells that are responsible for controlling inflammation also rose.<\/p>\n

The researchers suggest that vitamin D supplementation may help prevent the immune system from attacking the gut microbiome, reducing symptoms of IBD.<\/p>\n

They added that while vitamin D supplementation guidelines advise usage for bone health and calcium metabolism, it could have benefits of mediating the immune system and gut microbiome in IBD patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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