Disaccharidase deficiency enteropathies: treatment
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Treatment of disaccharide-deficient enteropathies. The main method of treating disaccharidase-deficient enteropathies, both congenital and acquired, is a diet with the exception or sharp restriction of an intolerable disaccharide. Thus, with lactase deficiency, milk and dairy products are excluded, except for calcined cottage cheese, which is usually well tolerated by patients. In the absence of a rapid and pronounced effect from the corresponding diet, enzyme preparations, astringent and carminative agents are shown.
Prevention of disaccharide-deficient enteropathy consists in the early detection of a deficiency of disaccharidases and the timely appointment of a diet with the exclusion of intolerable sugars.
The forecast is usually favorable. However, in cases of hereditary enzymopathy with prolonged irritation of the mucosa of the small intestine by fermentation products, its structural changes may occur and chronic enteritis with a syndrome of impaired absorption.
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