It's estimated that as many as 40% of people worldwide may experience functional gut symptoms, and many more have other gastrointestinal conditions, meaning that most of us are likely to encounter some level of gut symptoms during our life. But what are the most common digestive issues and at what point should you seek professional advice if you are experiencing any of these? Dr Emily Porter (PhD, RD) shares the digestive concerns that we frequently support people with at The Gut Health Clinic.

There are various common symptoms you should be on the lookout for when regularly checking for breast cancer.

Generally, swelling refers to any abnormal enlargement of a body part caused by inflammation or fluid accumulation.

Dr Rami Sweis has been working as a gastroenterology consultant for more than 10 years. Dr Rami is an upper and lower GI gastroenterologist and endoscopist. He treats problems from the throat and oesophagus, to the stomach and colon. He has a particular interest and expertise in upper GI benign disorders.

Hyperhidrosis is sweating when your body does not need to cool down. It usually affects body sites with the most sweat glands, such as the armpits, palms, soles and head and neck area.

Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing is used to look for problems in the throat and diagnose swallowing difficulties.

True dysphagia describes an inability or reduction in the ability to swallow. It is a very common symptom. Depending on the cause, the degree of dysphagia may vary from being subtle and short-lived to more profound and permanent. Find out more here.

Dr Sveeta Badiani is a Consultant Cardiologist at OneWelbeck, subspecialising in Echocardiography and Heart Failure.

Professor Singh has more than 18 years of consultant experience in Respiratory, cardiac, and Burns intensive care. He is a member of the national, platinum marked Royal Brompton ECMO-SARF service and lead of the SARF/ECMO follow up clinic., most recently a senior clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering frontline care, enabling extraordinary outcomes

Dr Susannah Bloch spends most of her NHS practice looking after lung cancer patients and her aim is to make sure patients have rapid access to diagnostics and all the support they need through their pathway including timely reassurance and the discharge of patients who don’t have lung cancer.