Lactose Intolerance and Symptom Pattern of Lactose Intolerance among Healthy Volunteers. 2016

Madhusudan Saha, and Irin Parveen, and Bimal Chandra Shil, and Shasanka Kumar Saha, and Ranjit Kumar Banik, and Monojit Majumder, and Mahjuba Umme Salam, and Asm Nazmul Islam
Department of Gastroenterology, North East Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVE To see the prevalence of lactose intolerance (LI) and related symptoms following oral lactose challenge in healthy volunteers. METHODS Symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea, borborygmi, flatulence, and diarrhea were noted for 24 hours and blood glucose was estimated at 0 hour and 30 minutes after 25 gm oral lactose load to healthy volunteers. Failure to rise blood glucose level ≥ 1.1 mmol/l at 30 minutes after lactose intake from fasting level was taken as lactose malabsorption (LM), i.e., LI. RESULTS A total of 166 volunteers (123 males, 43 females) with a mean age 34.78 ± 11.45 years participated in this study. Lactose intolerance was found among 85.54% (n = 142, M = 104, F = 38). The main symptoms of LI were diarrhea (n = 83, 58.4.0%), borborygmi (n = 81, 57.04%), abdominal pain (n = 35, 24.65%), and flatulence (n = 27, 19.0%). CONCLUSIONS Lactose intolerance among healthy adults may be common in Bangladesh. Diarrhea and borborygmi were mostly associated symptoms of LI. Saha M, Parveen I, Shil BC, Saha SK, Banik RK, Majumder M, Salam MU, Nazmul Islam ASM. Lactose Intolerance and Symptom Pattern of Lactose Intolerance among Healthy Volunteers. Euroasian J Hepato-Gastroenterol 2016;6(1):5-7.

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