Lactose malabsorption, irritable bowel syndrome and self-reported milk intolerance

Subjective lactose intolerance in apparently healthy adults in southern Iran: Is it related to irritable bowel syndrome?

“…[23,24] Vernia et al also noticed almost identical results of lactose breath test in patients with IBS and subjects with self-reported milk intolerance and suggested that the two conditions overlap to such an extent that the clinical approach should be the same. [25] Several other studies, however, reported no association between IBS and LI or maldigestion. [9,11,19] Although LI can initiate IBS symptoms, this does not mean LI causes IBS.…”

Development, Validation, and Applicability of a Symptoms Questionnaire for Lactose Malabsorption Screening

“…To this end, different scale scores have been used [10][11][12][13][14]. However, most have not been adequately validated for use in clinical practice.…”

Hand washing and diarrhoea in adolescents

“…However, considering the maximum number of reported episodes (only 13 adolescents reported 4 or more episodes of diarrhoea), it is expected that the reported episodes concern the acute situations that we wanted to analyse. While we can assume that these are acute episodes, we cannot exclude that some of the evaluated episodes may originate in other causes than those related to hygiene habits, such as food intolerances and reactions to medications (Vernia et al 2001;Makins and Ballinger 2003). This possible misclassification would tend to diminish the strength of the association.…”