[Diagnostic procedure in congenital saccharase-deficiency (author's transl)]

The diagnostic procedure is described in a 20 months old infant suffering from hereditary saccharase-deficiency. As a simple and adequate method the kinetic analysis of the oral disaccharide-tolerance-test can be used. The comparison of the areas under the glucose-concentration-curves in blood after the oral monosaccharide (glucose and fructose) and disaccharide (saccharose)-load, can be used as a measure for activity of saccharase in the intestinal mucosa.