The Effect of a Low FODMAP Diet in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients

Tertiary care IBS patients will be recruited for a prospective low FODMAP intervention study, hereby focusing on the reintroduction phase of the diet, where patients are blindly challenged with different FODMAP groups administered as powder, to be added to the strict FODMAP exclusion phase. During the screening phase of two weeks, baseline data regarding psychological, nutritional, microbial, and genetics will be collected. Predictors of treatment response (a 50-point drop on the IBS-severity scoring system (IBS-SSS) during the strict FODMAP exclusion phase of 6 weeks) will be studied with linear mixed models.