When bacteria digest food, they produce gas. These gasses pass through your intestinal walls into your bloodstream. Some of this gas ends up in your lungs, and you breathe them out.
The test collects samples of your breath over a short period of time.
The breath samples tare collected, sent to our pathology partners and get tested for the levels of Hydrogen and Methane being exhaled.
These levels tell us whereabouts bacteria are fermenting in your intestinal system, and how much gas they are creating.
For suspected sucrose malabsorption (sucrase-isomaltase deficiency).
Sucrose is found in processed foods, fruits and vegetables