Food, fibre, bile acids and the pelvic floor: An integrated low risk low cost approach to managing irritable bowel syndrome

Table 1 Types of bile acid malabsorption

Type 1	Examples
	Terminal ileitis (e.g., Crohn’s disease)
	Following resection of terminal ileum
Type 2	No definable underlying abnormality
	(this would apply to idiopathic chronic diarrhoea with a response to bile acid sequestrants and/or abnormal SeHCAT)
Type 3	Post cholecystectomy
	Post vagotomy
	Coeliac disease