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Diagnosis of lactose intolerance
Diagnóstico de la intolerancia a la lactosa
José Luís Domínguez-Jiméneza,
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, Antonio Fernández-Suárezb
a Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Alto Guadalquivir, Andújar, Jaén, Spain
b Área de Biotecnología, Servicio de Análisis Clínicos, Hospital Alto Guadalquivir, Andújar, Jaén, Spain
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where it is metabolised by the intestinal flora&#44; which produces short-chain fatty acids and gas&#44; primarily hydrogen &#40;H<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>&#41;&#44; carbon dioxide &#40;CO<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>&#41; and methane &#40;CH<span class="elsevierStyleInf">4</span>&#41;&#44; which are responsible for the symptoms of lactose intolerance &#40;LI&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is frequent in day-to-day clinical practice to confuse the terms malabsorption and LI&#44; a fact that can lead to erroneous treatment of the patient&#46; Lactose malabsorption &#40;LM&#41; is defined as inefficient digestion of lactose&#44; which can be due to a primary cause &#40;LNP&#41; or secondary to other acquired intestinal pathologies&#44; such as bacterial overgrowth&#44; giardiasis or coeliac disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> LI is defined as the presence of clinical symptoms&#44; such as abdominal pain&#44; explosive diarrhoea&#44; swelling&#44; flatulence&#44; bowel sounds and&#47;or vomiting associated with LM&#44; when milk of products contained milk are ingested&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However&#44; malabsorption of this sugar does not always translate into the development of symptoms of intolerance&#59; in fact&#44; only between a third and half of patients with LM are also intolerant&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are different diagnosis methods for LM&#44; from the determination of the activity of the lactase by means of jejunal biopsy&#44; absorption tests &#40;overload of lactose &#91;TTL&#93; or gaxilosa &#91;LacTEST<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span>&#93;&#41;&#44; malabsorption &#40;hydrogen breath test with lactose &#91;HBTL&#93; and analysis of faecal pH&#41;&#44; genetic studies and even symptom surveys after the ingestion of lactose&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Currently there is no &#8220;gold standard&#8221; test for the diagnosis of LM&#46; The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">activity of lactase in jejunal biopsies</span> was put forward as such&#59; however&#44; it is too aggressive a test for the study of a mild disease and its results could be influenced by an irregular spread of the lactase activity throughout the small intestine mucus&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">oral lactose tolerance test</span> &#40;LTT&#41; is an indirect test&#44; with minimal invasion&#44; which consists of the determination of glycaemias in the bloodstream&#44; at predefined intervals &#40;baseline&#44; 30&#44; 60&#44; and 120<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min&#41; after the administration of an oral overload of lactose &#40;25&#8211;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g&#41;&#46; Recently it has been possible to show that the test can be shortened to 60<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min without affecting its diagnostic efficacy&#44; with the financial saving this entails<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a>&#59; and even to 30<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min with a minimum change in its diagnostic capacity &#40;which would affect only 2&#46;2&#37; of patients&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> LM is considered pathological when the increase in the levels of glycaemia after the administration of the overload is not greater than 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;dl &#40;1&#46;11<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mmol&#47;l&#41;&#44; with regard to the baseline value&#44; in all determinations&#46; Low reliability in diabetic patients and those with slowed-down gastric evacuation is the main shortcoming&#59; however&#44; it contributes clinical value when registering the symptomatology caused by exposure to 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g of lactose in patients with LM&#46; In adults it shows a sensitivity and specificity which oscillates between 75&#37; and 96&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> This high variability in the diagnostic profitability found in the literature is due to the lack of homogeneity when it comes to carrying out the test&#59; in fact&#44; and under the protection of the same concept of LTT&#44; tests are included in which both the method of sample extraction &#40;capillary and venous&#41; and the cutting points &#40;1&#44; 1&#46;11 or 1&#46;39<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mmol&#47;l&#41;&#44; the dose of lactose &#40;25 or 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g&#41;&#44; determination times &#40;30&#44; 45&#44; 60&#44; 90 or 120<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min&#41; and even the aforementioned test for the calculation of diagnostic efficacy<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> are different&#46; In any case&#44; the experience of our group shows that it is still an effective test to assess LM or LI situations&#44; economical and easily available in any basic level health centre&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">HBTL</span> detects in exhaled air the hydrogen produced by the bacterial fermentation of the lactose which has escaped the complete absorption in the small intestine&#46; It is considered pathological when it shows an increase in the levels of hydrogen above 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>ppm with regard to the baseline values&#46; It is the most widely-used indirect method of LM diagnosis&#44; due to its reliability&#44; low cost and that it is non-invasive<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a>&#59; its sensitivity and specificity oscillate between 80&#37; and 100&#37; and 70&#37; and 100&#37;&#44; respectively&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> and as in the case of LTT&#44; it can contribute clinical value by exposing the patient to a lactose overload&#46; However&#44; in addition to requiring 240<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>min to carry out&#44; and material which is not available in many centres&#44; it is possible to encounter false negatives &#40;due to the incapacity of the intestinal flora to produce H<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span> after the ingestion of non-absorption carbohydrates&#44; or after the recent administration of antibiotics&#41; and false positives &#40;caused by bacterial overgrowth&#41;&#46; At present a joint measurement of H<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span> and CH<span class="elsevierStyleInf">4</span> in exhaled air is carried out&#44; to avoid false negatives derived from the existence of a non-H<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>-producing methanogenic intestinal flora&#46; It is a good diagnostic method&#44; complete and not at all invasive&#44; with a major role in the paediatric community and in patients with a phobia of venipuncture&#44; but with the disadvantages listed above &#40;mainly that it takes a long time to carry out&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is a genetic test that analyses two polymorphic positions &#40;&#8722;13910 C&#47;T and &#8722;22018 G&#47;A&#41; in the patient&#39;s DNA&#44; located in the regulatory region of the lactose-hydrolase gene &#40;LCT&#41;&#44; which determine the persistence or not of the lactose-hydrolase enzyme in adults&#46; The genotype CC-13910&#47;GG-22018 is associated with the non-persistence of this enzyme and therefore with hypolactasia in adult Caucasian patients&#46; The demonstration of a homozygote genotype CC-13910 is a good predictor of intestinal lactase activity&#44; while heterozygote should be considered negative&#44; because LM is a recessive condition&#46; In different studies carried out on the Caucasian population&#44; a high degree of agreement has been reached with regards to the HBTL for the diagnosis of LM&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0165"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> Its disadvantages are a high cost&#44; its low availability&#44; its slight usefulness in African&#44; Arab or Asiatic populations&#44; in addition to not providing clinical information after exposure to lactose&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0170"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> To summarise&#44; it is a test that can contribute to the diagnosis of LNP in certain populations&#44; and its differentiation from secondary causes&#44; but on its own it is incapable of assessing the state of LI&#46; It could be an important mainstay in the future&#44; within LM and LI diagnostic algorithms&#44; but aspects such as availability and price could count against it&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Gaxilosa test</span> is a non-invasive diagnostic method based on the oral administration of a synthetic analogue of lactose &#40;4-galactosyl-xylose&#41;&#46; The intestinal lactase fragmented in analogue in 2 physiological products&#58; galactose and <span class="elsevierStyleSmallCaps">d</span>-xylose&#46; The latter is absorbed passively in the small intestine and its levels can be measured effectively in the blood or urine with a simple colorimetric method&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0175"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> The total amount of xylose in urine is correlated to the enzymatic activity of the intestinal lactase&#46; Gaxilosa has a good diagnostic capacity&#44; with sensitivity and specificity above 90&#37;&#44; and its advantages with regard to other existing diagnosis systems are its simplicity of application&#44; the absence of discomfort for the patient and its quantitative character&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0180"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> However&#44; it does not supply information about tolerance&#44; there being no correlation between the degree of malabsorption &#40;quantified in this test&#41; and the degree of critical intolerance&#46; This test could play an important role in the diagnosis of LM in diabetic patients without nephropathy&#44; who cannot be subjected to a lactose overload&#44; and even to explore the integrity of the intestinal mucus in patients with chemotherapy or coeliac disease&#59; however&#44; these potential uses will need to be confirmed in future studies&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is also a <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">symptom questionnaire</span> validated for the diagnosis of LI&#46; It consists of 5 items &#40;diarrhoea&#44; abdominal pain&#44; vomiting&#44; intestinal noises and tympanites&#41;&#44; which are assessed by means of an analogue visual scale of 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm &#40;0 is the equivalent of the absence of symptoms and 10 is the maximum intensity of the symptoms&#41;&#46; The global score of the questionnaire has a range of 0&#8211;50&#46; A score of &#62;7 is considered indicative of LI and &#8804;7 tolerant&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> In day-to-day clinical practice the absence of symptoms after the ingestion of 40&#8211;50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g of lactose allows the exclusion of LI due to the negative predictive high value&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Sometimes&#44; if symptoms appear&#44; it is possible that it is a placebo effect&#44; above all in patients without LM and in those with functional pathology or self-diagnosed with food intolerance or allergy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> There are no specific symptoms that allow us to predict the presence of LNP&#44; and the sensitivity and the specificity vary between 0&#37; and 90&#37; for symptoms such as bowel sounds&#44; diarrhoea&#44; tympanites and abdominal pain in different individual studies&#46; In addition&#44; the patient&#39;s perception of suffering from LI is unreliable&#44; given that the sensitivity and specificity figures found oscillate between 30&#37; and 70&#37; and 25&#37; and 87&#37;&#44; respectively&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a> In a study recently-published by our group&#44; we observed that the presence of diarrhoea after the overload of 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g of lactose&#44; independently of the intensity of the same&#44; has a greater concordance with the genetic test than the LTT and the gaxilosa test&#46; So much so that&#44; when a patient suffers diarrhoea after an overload&#44; they are 8 times more likely to have LNP than not&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0195"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a></p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the current bibliography there is no clear consensus about which is the best diagnostic method for the detection of LM and LI&#44; with very heterogeneous results from publications&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0200"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> It is likely that a strategy based on the combination and&#47;or a sequential use of them is the ideal technique for the diagnosis of this disorder&#44; but more research is needed to validate this&#46; Therefore&#44; the choice of one or another method depends on&#44; among other factors&#44; availability and cost&#46; 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