Treating sufferers with dignity and empathy is very important, says healthcare organisation.
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Healthwatch North Yorkshire added that continence issues have a profound impact on people's health and independence. Jackie Butterworth, from Selby, North Yorkshire, said her symptoms began with blood in her faeces and she was initially told she had piles.She was unable to collect her son, who was then six, from school and was unable to go to the shops.
She was finally diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease in 2013 and later had surgery and a stoma fitted."As British people none of us talk about it. If you mention poo and wee to anybody they recoil and don't want to talk about it, but it's important.Healthwatch said it hoped its report would start a "larger conversation" about the issues. But Mr Green, its chief executive, added that there was a need for more than just talking.
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