Lactose intolerance in childhood.

Transient lactose intolerance in infancy.

Bartrop, R. W., and Hull, D. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 963. Transient lactose intolerance in infancy. The clinical details of 100 infants with disaccharide intolerance secondary to a variety of bowel disorders were examined. Malnourished infants under 6 months of age were particularly at risk. The difficulty of establishing the relevance of sugar intolerance is emphasized. T...

Lactose malabsorption during gastroenteritis, assessed by the hydrogen breath test.

Thirty-eight infants and young children with gastroenteritis were investigated for lactose malabsorption. Each of them was given an oral lactose load of either 0.5 g/kg or 2 g/kg after which breath hydrogen excretion was measured, and each was observed to see if he had clinical symptoms of lactose intolerance. Only one patient, given 2 g/kg lactose, had clinical intolerance. His breath hydrogen...

Severe lactose intolerance with lactosuria and vomiting.

An infant with lactose intolerance is described. A breast-fed infant developed vomiting at 3 weeks, and became dehydrated. Lactosuria, aminoaciduria, and liver damage were preesent. A milk-free diet led to rapid recovery. At 6 months a normal diet was well tolerated.

Prevalence of lactose intolerance in children with recurrent abdominal pain.

Lactose Intolerance in Childhood Coeliac Disease

There is dispute about the frequency and importance of disaccharide intolerance in childhood coeliac disease. Arthur and his co-workers (1966) considered that intolerance to disaccharides, especially lactose, was common, whereas Anderson and her colleagues (1966) thought that it occurred only rarely. Arthur et al. recommended the routine exclusion from the diet of lactose and sucrose as well as...

Lactose intolerance in infants: harder to investigate now following discontinuation of Clinitest.

Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Audit Committee. In July 2010 Clinitest tablets were withdrawn from the market by Bayer. This commercial quantitative Benedict’s reagent test has been used since 1964 for the diagnosis of lactose intolerance in children with diarrhoea. 1 It is a non-specifi c test for the presence of redu...