fructose malabsorption test
#363581 - 02/22/11 03:07 AM
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at long last I now have a referral and a hospital that has a fructose test on offer, but one quick puzzling thing:
I can apparently just go there, any time of the day and there are no guidelines as to how I'm supposed to eat beforehand.
for the glucose and lactose test I had to fast on the day and for two days beforehand I couldn't eat wholemeal foods/pulses/beans.
no restrictions at all for fructose malabsorption? why?
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Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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This doesn't make sense. Little Minnie had the test a few weeks ago and she had to follow these guidelines. Here is a link to the Quintron collection kit and instructions. It says the same thing as Cedars-Sinai. I believe these are similar instructions to your other tests. Perhaps give the test center a call and ask them for clarification. There is no question there are preparatory guidelines that are important to follow.
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I know, I read up on this and everything, and it's all confusing and just spent half an hour trying to find out but noone can really help me it seems. they ll call back once they ve looked into it...
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Susie, born in 1985,
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I would just like to report on the fact that I simply don't think it's possible to test for fructose malabsorption here in Britain. I have been to three hospitals now, where the staff albeit not knowledgeable about these things, have been incredibly helpful. Only to have to disappoint me that they don't do it. whereas hospitals tend to do lactose and glucose tests, nowhere is fructose malabs breath testing available. (I tried cambridge and two london hospitals, one of those with an especially large gastro unit). there is just no demand for it. I have now devoted so much time to all this... now given up, if anyone in the UK does manage to get tested for it through non-private means pls do let me know.
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(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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Try the following
Biolab Medical Unit London
The Cambridge University Hospitals claim they do a fructose malabsorption test. Here is the information pamphlet which gives the following contact details "If you have any queries, please contact: Mary Brennen, Helen Shelley or Lesley Dark, Tel: 01223 274757"
Bastow Laboratory at Nottingham University Hospitals say they do fructose malabsorption test.
Also, I just had a friend who had a fructose test in the UK who I am trying to contact to get the details.
Good luck 
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thanks v much
I need something london based, am no longer registered in cambridge!
will try to get my doctor to refer me to that biolab
thanks again
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I hope you get it figured out. Although if that is accurate it would be awesome to do the test that simply. That is how I thought it would be until I found out how hard it is. But when I drank that pure fructose syrup, if I had been FI I would have known it. Try drinking a high fructose juice on an empty stomach in the morning and see if you feel horrible. If not, other than passing queasiness, you aren't FI.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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thanks. Syl did suggest that too, but I do wonder even if I don't feel horrible, fructose may still cause me D or bloating and maybe the effect is not instantaneous?!
I have not eaten fructose for the past couple of months, since things are on an even keel now, disinclined to rock the boat as it were. but I am intrigued.
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