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Sugar Intolerance in Malnourished Infants and Children

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Journal Br Med J
Specialty General Medicine
Date 1968 Dec 7
PMID 5723364
Citations 14
Authors
R K Chandra
R R Pawa
O P GHAI
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Abstract

Of 100 malnourished Indian infants and children 50 showed a stool pH below 6. Carbohydrate-loading tests demonstrated intolerance to lactose in 39, to sucrose in 25, and to maltose in 15. D-Xylose absorption was reduced in 16. Steatorrhoea was detected in 7 of 18 children tested. Nutritional recovery reversed the abnormalities in all except four, in whom a primary enzymic deficiency was considered on the basis of persistent lactose intolerance and a positive family history.

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