Gut reaction: Keeping your tummy happy over the 12 days of Christmas
IT can be a little bewildering — not to mention frustrating — when a seemingly healthy food, such as broccoli, upsets your stomach, but that was how it was for co-director and owner of Lockdown PR agency Vivienne McCarthy, who first started to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in her teens.
The businesswoman and mother of two is now in her 30s but, at the time, she found it difficult to get any help for the severe bloating, cramps, and discomfort she endured on a daily basis.
