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Product of the month: Microbiome test
Quick contact – Monday-Friday: 8.30-16.30
Product of the month: Microbiome test
Troubled by bloating, abdominal cramps or vague digestive complaints? The hydrogen breath test is a painless, non-invasive method that can accurately identify lactose or fructose sensitivity and contaminated small bowel syndrome (SIBO). Get answers to your questions at our modern diagnostic centres!
Bloating after dairy products: If you feel distended after eating dairy foods.
Abdominal cramps after eating fruit: If fruit sugar (fructose) causes irritation.
Regular diarrhoea: An urgent need to open your bowels, linked to meals, with no known cause.
Increased gas production: Uncomfortable bloating that affects your everyday comfort.
Nausea and queasiness: Complaints that appear after eating certain types of sugar.
Suspected SIBO: If the balance of your gut flora has been upset and bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine is suspected.
Food intolerance screening: If you want to get to the bottom of what is causing your recurring digestive problems.
Claiming the tax allowance: If lactose intolerance is suspected and you need the official specialist certificate.
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At our centres we carry out measurements with lactose (milk sugar), fructose (fruit sugar) and lactulose (to screen for SIBO). This comprehensive approach allows us to pinpoint the source of the problem rather than just drawing general conclusions.
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We are familiar with the legal requirements. We precisely follow the dual protocol required to certify lactose sensitivity (a positive lactose test after a negative lactulose test), so you can obtain from us the specialist documents entitling you to the personal tax allowance.
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In addition to Budapest, we also welcome patients in Debrecen, Dombóvár, Gyula, Siófok, Esztergom and Szolnok. Our modern equipment and well-trained assistants guarantee accurate measurements and patient comfort during the test.
From early 2018, the specialist certificate entitling people with lactose sensitivity to the tax allowance can only be issued after a negative lactulose H2 breath test, which rules out a treatable bowel infection, followed by a positive lactose H2 breath test. You can find the medical explanation for this here.
The h2 breath test with fructose shows whether fructose intolerance, or fruit sugar intolerance is present. If we regularly experience unpleasant symptoms after eating fruit – cramping abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bloating or diarrhoea – it is worth finding out whether fructose intolerance is behind our complaints.
The h2 breath test with lactose the lactose intolerance, or milk sugar sensitivity is present. Lactose – i.e. milk sugar – is found mainly in milk and dairy products, but it can also occur in many other foods. This test is worth having if you experience unpleasant abdominal symptoms after eating dairy products (abdominal pain, bloating, intestinal cramps…).
The h2 breath test with lactulose helps to detect bacteria that have multiplied abnormally in the small intestine – i.e. contaminated small bowel syndrome – indirectly.
Be prepared, however, for these tests to take up to 180 minutes, and for certain special dietary rules to be followed before the test – you will find more details on this under the individual tests.
If you regularly experience unpleasant abdominal symptoms after eating fruit, it is worth finding out whether they are caused by fructose intolerance
A simple, painless way to diagnose lactose intolerance is the H2 (hydrogen) breath test.
This test uses an instrument to detect hydrogen in the exhaled breath, produced after a lactulose load.
