Recognition of food components that induce functional gut symptoms in patient ’ s functional bowel disorders (FBD) has been challenging. Food directly or indirectly provides considerable afferent input into the enteric nervous system. There is an altered relationship between the afferent input and perception / efferent response in FBD. Defi ning the nature of food-related stimuli may provide a means…

SIBO – Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth Hydrogen breath test to diagnose several conditions that cause gastrointestinal symptoms. Gastrocure in West Orange, NJ performs the lactulose breath test to measure hydrogen in the breath. Please call Gastrocure at (973)736-1112 to schedule your test today. The Lactulose Breath Test What is the hydrogen breath test? The hydrogen breath test is a test…

Many physicians order blood tests looking for antibodies indicating sensitization to certain foods, and when such antibodies are found the physicians inform the patients to avoid those foods. Blood tests alone, however, are not diagnostic for food allergy, Sampson said, and many people with sensitivities to certain foods will not actually have a reaction upon exposure. “The exercise of diagnosing…

Tests vary from country to country, so the following information is provided as a rough guide to typical uses of the hydrogen breath test: Fructose malabsorption – the patient takes a base reading of hydrogen levels in his/her breath. The patient is then given a small amount of fructose, and then required to take readings every 15, 30 or 60…

Leaky gut can be a difficult diagnosis to establish for a number of reasons: It’s associated with a wide range of seemingly unconnected symptoms; it has a lot of different causes; there’s no specific test to confirm it; and evidence tying it to other conditions can be murky. As a result, there’s a fair amount of skepticism in the mainstream…