Breath test for lactose intolerance

What is breath test?

Breath test with lactose, is a safe and non-invasive that is used to detect if there is bad absorption or lactose intolerance.

What is lactose intolerance?

Is the inability to process de lactose, the milk sugar. Occurs when the person’s small intestine does not produce the enough amount of lactase (an enzyme or substance that helps in the lactose digestion). The symptoms of lactose intolerance are abdominal pain, swelling, flatulence, diarrhea with you consume milk or derivatives.

When the breath test is performed?

This test is recommended to the following cases:

• In children or teenagers that have digestive hassles and is suspicious of lactose intolerance.
• In adults with diarrhea, flatulence or abdominal pain and who does not know the causes of this hassles.

What is consist the exam?

Normally, in our breath exist low quantities of hydrogen. When you drink milk and lactose intolerance exist, this is not digest on the small intestine and goes directly to the colon, where the bacteria present there decompose it, producing gases like hydrogen, which is eliminated through the lungs by breathing. During the breath test, it will be given you a little dose of lactose dilute in water, then, it will be asking you to blow an equipment every 20 minutes for 2 to 3 hours. During this period, you will inform us if you have any hassle after ingest the lactose.