Tag: "lactose intolerance"

Diagnosis plz…

i was talking to a villager who is blind since childhood complaining to me about his health after knowing that i was a doctor..i offered him a milk tea but he refused to drink as he says that leads him to indigestion…based on this information, could you tell us what disease is this gentleman suffering [...]

Lactose intolerance

9 year old boy regularly complains of abdominal cramps, abdominal distension, and diarrhea after drinking milk. A gastroenterologist administers 50 g of lactose by mouth to the child and measures and increases in the boys expired hydrogen gas. How lactose is digested and absorbed in the small intestine and explains the symptoms that accompany lactose [...]