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Dietary management of D-lactic acidosis in short bowel syndrome
A J Mayne1, D J Handy, M A Preece
1Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
Manipulation of carbohydrate intake was used to treat severe, recurrent D-lactic acidosis in a patient with short bowel syndrome. Dietary carbohydrate composition was determined after assessment of D-lactic acid production from various carbohydrate substrates by faecal flora in vitro. This approach may be preferable to repeated courses of antibiotics.