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Low Breath Hydrogen Production in Post‐Diarrheic Infants
Author(s) -
JR F. JOSEPH,
ROSENBERG A. J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1991.tb11950.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lactulose , pediatrics
. Thirty hospitalized infants, aged 1 month to 15 months, who were more than 24 hours into a post‐recovery period from diarrheic episodes were studied for breath hydrogen production due to intestinal lactulose fermentation. Only 16% of the infants demonstrated hydrogen production of > 20 parts per million (ppm) over the baseline. We conclude that a recovery period much longer than 24 hours from the last diarrheic episode is necessary to obtain any reliable data from breath hydrogen tests administered to infants.