IB Care™

• Provides clinically effective amounts of peppermint, caraway, and oregano oils at proven dosages.
  
• Potent amounts of active components: 50% menthol (peppermint), 60% phenol (oregano), and 50% carvone (caraway).
  
• Enteric coating enhances efficacy, allowing for an antispasmodic effect in the upper gastric and intestinal tissues.
  
• Research confirms that peppermint oil is more effective and better tolerated when protected from stomach acid.
  
• Enteric coating also reduces adverse effects and peppermint taste.

IB Care contains enteric-coated peppermint, oregano, and caraway oils, which have demonstrated beneficial effects on various gastrointestinal disorders. Peppermint oil is known to influence gastric motility, accelerating early gastric emptying through an antispasmodic effect on the stomach. It also increases the relaxation time of the pyloric valve, decreases the resting pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter, and offers benefits when combined with caraway oil, producing smooth muscle relaxation in the stomach and duodenum. Oregano oil has demonstrated antimicrobial effects against H. pylori, the primary cause of gastroduodenal ulcers and dyspepsia, as well as against other gastrointestinal pathogens.

Clinically, enteric-coated preparations of these oils have demonstrated benefits in a number of clinical trials. A meta-analysis of twelve randomized trials involving a total of 835 patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) compared the effects of peppermint oil to placebo. Compared to the placebo group, patients taking peppermint oil showed significant improvements in overall symptoms and abdominal pain. Controlled trials have shown improvement in dyspepsia and symptoms such as pain, heaviness, and abdominal pressure, regardless of H. pylori status, and even in patients with significant epigastric pain. Furthermore, enteric-soluble peppermint oil has demonstrated clinical efficacy in a number of IBS trials, showing improvement in the majority of participants, both children and adults.