Sentences with phrase «positive hydrogen breath tests»

These patients may be identified on basis of abnormalities in serum folate and / or cobalamin concentrations, a positive hydrogen breath test, or by culture of duodenal juice aspirated in the course of other investigations.

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If a baby is lactose intolerant, the medical tests («hydrogen breath test» and tests for «reducing sugars» in the stools) would be expected to be positive.

I ended up taking the three hour hydrogen breath test and it was positive for SIBO, I was given a gut specific antibiotic, and I haven't had trouble since.

Close to 70 percent of the individuals in both groups tested positive for lactose intolerance based on the hydrogen breath test (HBT).

Instead, hydrogen - methane breath testing is used, with the glucose breath test (GBT) having superior specificity (meaning it detects few false positive)(Ghoshal et al., 2014).

Dear Kate, I have tested positive (not strongly, but strong enough) on the Hydrogen Breath test for Lactose.

A limitation of breath H2 tests in people is that 15 - 20 % of the human population have intestinal flora that does not produce hydrogen, and therefore can not demonstrate a positive test result if bacterial overgrowth develops.