Table 2.
Symptoms after intake of lactose in patients with and without lactose malabsorption (LM).
| Symptoms | LM (N = 7) |
Not LM (N = 52) |
Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pain/discomfort all | 5/7 (71%) | 21/52 (40%) | p = 0.223 |
| Pain/discomfort-ELL | 5/7 (71%) | 8/52 (15%) | p = 0.004 |
| Borborygmi all | 5/7 (71%) | 25/52 (48%) | ns (p = 0.424) |
| Borborygmi-ELL | 5/7 (71%) | 8/51 (16%) | p = 0.005 |
| Bloating all | 5/7 (71%) | 24/52 (46%) | ns (p = 0.254) |
| Bloating-ELL | 5/7 (71%) | 8/51 (16%) | p = 0.005 |
| Diarrhoea all | 4/7 (57%) | 16/52 (31%) | ns (p = 0.213) |
| Diarrhoea-ELL | 3/7 (43%) | 4/51 (8%) | p = 0.032 |
| Constipation all | 0/7 (0%) | 4/52 (8%) | ns (p = 1.00) |
| Constipation-ELL | 0/7 (0%) | 4/52 (8%) | ns (p = 1.00) |
| Any symptom | 6/7 (86%) | 32/52 (62%) | ns (p = 0.40) |
| Any symptom-ELL | 6/7 (86%) | 11/51 (22%) | p = 0.002 |
ELL (= "Early and Long Lasting"): Symptoms starting within 5 h after intake of lactose and lasting for more than 2 h. Any symptom-ELL = Any "Early and Long Lasting" symptom.
The results are given as number of patients with proportions in brackets.