Clinical value

You will be able to diagnose Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), which occurs when bacteria enter your normally sterile small intestine and begin to colonize. SIBO is a disorder of excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine, unlike the colon (or large bowel), which is rich with bacteria.

Or to infer about your patients’ ability to absorve and digest the different sugars.

The report provides (depending on the panel chosen)

• Bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine
• Measure of methane and hydrogen after an oral lactulose challenge
• Absorption and digestion of fructose/sucrose/lactose

Tests available

• SIBO (Bacterial Overgrowth of the Small Intestine)
• Fructose Malabsorption
• Sucrose Malabsorption
• Lactose Malabsorption