Quote: but you are confusing people by making it sound like IBS can be cured by avoiding fructose.
If I have misled you or anyone else into thinking that I believe avoiding fructose is a cure for IBS I apologize. If you would kindly point out which posting(s) I made such a claim I will correct it immediately!
As one of the 30-40% of IBS suffers that has problems with fructose nothing would please me more than to see doctors routinely do a test for fructose malabsorption like they sometimes do for celiac disease, food allergies, etc. However, even though fructose has been known to be a trigger for IBS suffers since 1978 it is only within the past few years that substantive research studies have been published in leading GI journals commonly read by GPs and GI specialists. In fact, it was only last year that the first comprehensive dietary guidelines were published for doctors to help them with dietary advice for IBS patients that are fructose malabsorbers too.
As a start it sure would be nice to see the breath test or dietary exclusion test for fructose malabsorption added to Heather's of list of diagnostic tests one should ask their doctor for when being diagnosed for IBS.
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