Isolated fructose malabsorption

Arch Dis Child. 1990 Feb;65(2):227-9. doi: 10.1136/adc.65.2.227.

Abstract

A patient with isolated fructose malabsorption presented with diarrhoea and colic during the first year of life and subsequently responded to a fructose free diet. Fructose malabsorption has been implicated in some cases of irritable bowel syndrome in adults and may also be an infrequently recognised cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in children.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Breath Tests
  • Colic / etiology
  • Diarrhea, Infantile / etiology
  • Female
  • Fructose Intolerance / diagnosis*
  • Fructose Intolerance / diet therapy
  • Fructose Intolerance / metabolism
  • Fructose Metabolism, Inborn Errors / diagnosis*
  • Fructose* / blood
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malabsorption Syndromes / diagnosis*
  • Malabsorption Syndromes / metabolism

Substances

  • Fructose