Food habits, stressors, and use of complementary medicine therapies among pediatric patients who attend an integrative medicine pediatric pain clinic

This 2018 study examined a group of children with chronic abdominal pain to determine the relationship between their clinical symptoms, malabsorption of fructose, and fructose-induced symptoms. A valid questionnaire was developed to assess the children’s clinical symptoms. Breath tests were also taken to measure the fructose malabsorption of the 82 pediatric patients. Patients were classed […]

This 2018 review looks at the available literature on the relationship between fructose consumption and the development of constipation. Research papers published on the online database PubMed were examined. The review particularly focused on a retrospective chart review from the pediatric gastroenterology clinic. Of the 367 patients who took the fructose breath hydrogen test, 208 […]