INFORMATION ABOUT OUR BREATH TESTING Breath Testing for hydrogen and methane has been used for decades in the diagnosis of digestive disorders of carbohydrate absorption, and more recently for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). They are ...
Various factors, especially not following the testing instructions properly, can result in a false negative test in some cases. However, the breath test is considerably more accurate than blood tests. Note: The specificity and thus the accuracy of ...
The SIBO Lactulose breath test is for diabetics only. This SIBO breath test utilizes “Lactulose” as a substrate to avoid high blood sugar peaks (but sometimes will experience some diarrhea with this). For nondiabetics, we have the SIBO Glucose test, ...
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2014;12:1964–1972 PERSPECTIVES IN CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY Richard J. Saad and William D. Chey Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Abstract: The diagnosis ...