Sucrose intolerance

Sucrose intolerance (synonym sucrase -isomaltase deficiency, or sucrose - isomaltose malabsorption ) is one of the food intolerances and is a mostly autosomal recessive metabolic disease in which the table sugar (sucrose) is not tolerated. After intake of sucrose leads to abdominal pain, cramps, diarrhea and vomiting.

Molding

Differences are:

• The primary form of sucrose - isomaltose malabsorption as a rare inherited metabolic disorder that manifests itself from about the sixth month of life in infants, since sugar is absorbed by the baby foods for the first time. It is here in front of a sucrase - Isomaltasemangel. Sucrose (table sugar ) can not or only slightly be broken down in the small intestine to glucose. Therefore, the sucrose enters increasingly into the large intestine, which can result in a row, abdominal pain, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. The incidence is 1 to 222,900th
• The secondary, usually transient form as malabsorption due to acute intestinal inflammation or other diseases of the small intestine. Also as a result of celiac disease, the secondary form occur.

Diagnosis

Can be securely diagnosed sucrose intolerance currently only a small intestine biopsy determining sucrase -isomaltase activity in the tissues of the small intestine. In addition, there are other methods of investigation such as the hydrogen breath test after ingestion of disaccharides, but these are not conclusive for the presence of sucrose intolerance.

Therapy

Sufferers turn to a sucrose diet. Table sugar is replaced by glucose, lactose and fructose.