title: [Lactose malabsorption in patients with inflammatory bowel disease without activity: would it be necessary to exclude lactose products in the diet of all patients?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There are inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients avoid lacteal products without evidence of lactose malabsorption, probably because of incorrect patient perceptions and arbitrary advice from physicians and diet books.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the prevalence of lactose malabsorption in patients with IBP.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 18 patients with Crohńs disease and 24 with ulcerative colitis and 25 controls the prevalence of lactose intolerance, as measured by lactose breath hydrogen tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Observed deficiencies of absorption of the lactose in 7 (16.6%) patients with IBP and 5 (20%) subjects control.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Not all the patients with IBD are intolerant to the lactose by the suppression of the lacteal produts must not be generalized in the diet of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. rbmadrid71@yahoo.es
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baños Madrid
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Salama Benerroch
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morán Sánchez
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gallardo Sánchez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Albadalejo Meroño
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mercader Martínez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001944:Breath Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007785:Lactose / Q000378:metabolism*; D007787:Lactose Intolerance / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008892:Milk / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007785:Lactose