Quote: 5 grams of fat is 1 diabetic fat exchange. 1 diabetic fat exchange is about 45 Kcals. A fat exchange is about 1 tsp of oil. 100 grams of fat would be 20 fat exchanges I believe unless my memory is malfunctioning. That is a lot of fat. Jeanette are you sure about the 100 grams of fat to eaten in a day for this test, maybe it was 100 Kcals instead? What exactly did they have you eat? How many Ts or ts of fat? Or what was the menu?
When my gall bladder stopped working I couldn't even eat 1/4 a tsp of oil without symptoms.
100gs of fat would likely give me pancreatitis; as I still can tolerate very little fat. My liver wouldn't appreciate it either.
I'd avoid such a test if they did ask me to eat that much fat in a week let alone 24 hrs, as I know fat is what really gets my guts in major pain. Yikes!
Yep, it was 100 grams of fat. The purpose of the test is to see if you have a fat malabsorption. I don't think I got 100 grams in though because I got horrible D before I could eat everything planned. What I ate was sausage egg mcmuffin and hasbrowns from McDonald's (which if I remember correctly that was 25 or 35 grams) then I ate at Olive garden, I don't remember everything I ate there, but I do recall the fried cheese sticks and mushroom appetizers. I think I probably got in about 80 grams by the time the D kicked in. My doctor told me (after the fact) that they recommend you eat 3 meals at McDonalds and that should get you the 100 grams. I believe the reason for the 100 grams is that they know how much your body should expel with this specific amount and if the amount in your stool is greater than that, then they know you have a malabsorption problem. A healthy small intestine will absorb almost all of that fat, but an unhealthy one will expel more.
I knew going into the test that it was going to cause me some problems but I also NEED to know what is wrong with me, and if 1 or 2 days of pain and discomfort is what it takes then so be it - and I can say that I would do it all over again because otherwise I would be diagnosed simply with IBS and receive no treatment. Now they know that there is something more going on with me that won't show up in any of the scopes, xrays etc.
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