IBS treatment aims to control symptoms and reduce the impact on life and wellbeing. IBS is a long lasting (chronic), often lifelong condition - but you may have periods of time where there are no symptoms and then it flares up again. There's no cure but treatments can achieve a big improvement in symptoms and quality of life.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/how-to-treat-irritable-bowel-syndrome