Is there a link between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and left-handedness?: An exploratory study.

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How many parents have reported decreased left-handedness with chelation....a

lot! Here it's suggested that decreased left-handedness is due to improved gut

function.AbstractRecent

research has found that people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and

those with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) show a relative deficit in

verbal IQ, compared to their own performance IQ, and the IQ of a healthy

comparison group. It has been suggested that the elevated prevalence of

left-handedness shown in previous studies investigating people with IBD

is due to compromised left-hemisphere development. This may be

associated with a decrement in certain cognitive functions such as

verbal IQ. A shift in brain dominance from left to right has been found

in many atopic and immunological diseases as well as in autonomic

dysfunctions. It was uncertain whether this would apply to people with

IBS, a functional disorder in which the cause or causes remain unclear.

Therefore, the aim of this preliminary study was to investigate whether

people with IBS have an increased prevalence of left-handedness. It was

found that there was an association between IBS and left-handedness,

showing that further research on this association both in IBS and other

functional disorders (as well as on the similarities between IBS and

IBD) is warranted.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16491932