Reflux, IBS, constipation, bloating and abdominal pain.
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Every condition below has its own page covering symptoms, causes, how it is diagnosed, whether it can be treated online, and when to seek urgent help.
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Digestive symptoms are common, usually benign, and occasionally not. The value of a proper consultation is partly the treatment and partly making sure the things that need investigating actually get investigated.
Coeliac disease and H. pylori are both easily missed and both straightforward to test for.
Digestive symptoms are common, usually benign, and occasionally not. The value is partly the treatment and largely making sure the things that need investigating actually get investigated.
Test for coeliac disease before removing gluten. The test becomes unreliable once you have stopped eating it, and people lose the diagnosis this way — which matters, because coeliac disease has consequences well beyond symptoms.
Stop your PPI for two weeks before H. pylori testing. Taking one causes a false negative, and it is a common reason the diagnosis is missed.
These need endoscopy or urgent referral rather than acid suppression, and treating them with a tablet delays the diagnosis:
Iron deficiency in a man, or in a woman past the menopause, belongs on this list too — it warrants bowel investigation until proven otherwise, rather than a supplement.
If you have simple heartburn and no warning symptoms, a pharmacist can sort you out for a few pounds. We would rather say so.
Bowel cancer screening — the home test kit sent to eligible age groups. Take it. It is free, it is quick, and uptake is the thing that determines whether it saves lives. A kit sitting in a drawer helps nobody.
Endoscopy and gastroenterology referral are free on the NHS, with urgent pathways for exactly the symptoms listed above.
Food intolerance tests sold online — IgG testing has no validity and leads to unnecessary dietary restriction. "Gut healing" supplement protocols, apple cider vinegar and alkaline water. And elimination diets started before coeliac testing, which can cost you the diagnosis.
You often cannot, and that is why it matters. Heart attacks are mistaken for indigestion regularly.
Call 999 for chest pain with breathlessness, sweating, or pain radiating to the arm or jaw — particularly if it comes on with exertion. An antacid relieving it proves nothing.
Difficulty swallowing, food sticking, unintentional weight loss, vomiting blood, black tarry stools, anaemia, or new indigestion over 55.
These need investigating rather than treating. A PPI settles the symptom and delays the diagnosis, which is the specific harm to avoid.
Not before being tested for coeliac disease. The test becomes unreliable once you have stopped eating gluten, and people lose the diagnosis this way.
Test first, then experiment.
Sometimes yes — but it should be a decision, not a default.
For Barrett's oesophagus or severe oesophagitis, long-term treatment is clearly right. For ordinary reflux, the aim is the lowest dose that controls symptoms, reviewed periodically.
Not dependence — rebound acid hypersecretion, which follows stopping a PPI abruptly after prolonged use and feels exactly like the reflux returning worse than before.
It settles within about two weeks. Step down gradually rather than stopping dead.
IBS is a real diagnosis and a common one — but it should be made after excluding the things that mimic it, not instead of.
Coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, bile acid malabsorption and, in the right age group, bowel cancer all present similarly. If nobody has tested for coeliac disease or checked inflammatory markers, that is worth asking about.
No. IgG food intolerance testing has no scientific validity, and the usual outcome is an expensive list of foods to avoid for no benefit — sometimes with real nutritional cost.
Genuine food allergy is a different thing and is assessed on history, not on a mail-order panel.
A bacterium causing persistent indigestion and ulcers, treatable with a course of antibiotics — and eradication resolves symptoms for a good number of people while reducing ulcer and stomach cancer risk.
Stop your PPI two weeks before testing, or the result will be falsely negative.
The evidence is mixed and strain-specific rather than general. There is reasonable evidence for particular strains in particular situations — antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, some IBS — and very little for the broad "gut health" claims on most packaging.
Not harmful, frequently oversold, and not a substitute for finding out what is actually going on.
Usually not — but persistent bloating in a woman is one symptom worth taking more seriously than it usually is.
Bloating that is persistent rather than intermittent, particularly with feeling full quickly, pelvic pain or urinary urgency, warrants assessment for ovarian cancer. It is a recognised presentation and it is missed because bloating is so common.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 29, 2026
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Same-day access is usually available, from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. You choose a time that suits you rather than waiting on hold at 8am.
Yes. Care is led personally by Dr Mohammad Khan, so you are not passed between clinicians. Continuity is the point of a small practice: someone who knows your history and is listening attentively rather than working through a checklist.
Yes, with your consent. We can access your Summary Care Record during the consultation, so your current medications, allergies and significant history are in the room. That means fewer questions you have already answered elsewhere, and safer prescribing.
No. We are not here to replace GPs, only to support them. Your NHS practice remains responsible for your ongoing care, and with your consent we write to them after the consultation. We are useful when you need to be seen sooner, or want more time than a standard appointment allows.
Twenty unhurried minutes and a comprehensive assessment. A written treatment plan is included, along with any prescription, sick note or referral letter arising from the consultation, at no extra charge.
£40 for 20 minutes, self-pay. Membership is optional and never required. Priced for fairness, because we are not here to charge extortionate amounts for access to a doctor.
It means the diagnosis can usually be made from your history and photographs, and that treatment can be arranged safely without examining you. Where a condition is not marked treatable online, it is because examination is the diagnosis — listening to a chest, feeling an abdomen, examining an ear or a joint — or because a procedure or device is needed.
Yes, where there is a genuine bacterial infection — cellulitis, impetigo, bacterial urine infections, confirmed strep throat. We will also frequently tell you that you do not need one. Most sore throats, coughs, colds and earaches are viral, and an antibiotic gives you the side effects with none of the benefit.
If your problem turns out to be genuinely outside what we can do remotely, the doctor will tell you straight away, point you to the right service, and refund your fee in full. We would rather do that than fill twenty minutes to justify the charge.
Call 999 or go to A&E — do not book an online appointment and do not wait for a reply to an email. For urgent problems that are not emergencies, NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, online or by phone, and can direct you to the right service.
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