Sucrose intolerance tests in the neonates

Suryantoro, P.; Nelwan; Ismangun

Paediatrica Indonesiana 20(1-2): 1-6

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0030-9311
PMID: 7367029
Document Number: 167458
Sucrose malabsorption is difficult to diagnose especially in newborn babies. Stool chromatography is the most useful tool to detect saccharide malabsorption. Using the clinical symptoms as parameter, there were 3 out of 28 babies suffering from sucrose malabsorption in whom the blood glucose level did not increase > 40 mg% after the injection of sucrose.

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