5Disorders of carbohydrate digestion and absorption

摘要: Disorders of carbohydrate digestion and absorption may be relevance clinically in two ways, namely by affecting nutrition causing gastrointestinal disturbance. Since alternative dietary energy sources are usually available, significant nutritional disturbance is rare adults. It more important neonates, although, when serious illness, malnutrition will closely associated with the electrolyte water-losing aspects The importance malabsorption to symptoms becomes rapidly apparent if we consider simple consequences failure achieve very efficient absorption. If 300 grams ingested daily, then a mere per cent residuum might, after metabolism colonic bacteria, triple mean daily stool weight osmotic effect on water or further metabolised produce over four litres CO2. diagnoses therapy disorders related physiology, this reviewed first.