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The result was positive when the H2 excretion exceeded 20 parts per million (ppm) and the CH4 was 10 ppm above the baseline. A clinician, blinded for the results of the breath test, registered the symptoms. Of the patient population, 101\/209 (48%) were negative for both H2 and CH4; 96\/209 (46%) had a positive H2 breath test result; 31\/96 (32%) were also positive for CH4; 12\/209 (6%) patients were only positive for CH4. The majority of hydrogen producers showed symptoms, whereas this was only the case in half of the H2-negative CH4 producers. Almost all patients treated with a lactose-poor diet reported significant symptom improvement. These results indicate that CH4 measurements may possibly be of additional value for the diagnosis of LI, since 5.7% of patients were negative for H2 and positive for CH4, and half of them experienced symptoms during the test.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu13093261","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,21]],"date-time":"2021-09-21T22:34:01Z","timestamp":1632263641000},"page":"3261","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Hydrogen and Methane Breath Test in the Diagnosis of Lactose Intolerance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7703-022X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Charlotte","family":"De Geyter","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"KidZ Health Castle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) UZ Brussel, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kris","family":"Van de Maele","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"KidZ Health Castle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) UZ Brussel, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bruno","family":"Hauser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"KidZ Health Castle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) UZ Brussel, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yvan","family":"Vandenplas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"KidZ Health Castle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) UZ Brussel, 1090 Brussels, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"S9","article-title":"Lactose intolerance","volume":"24","author":"Vandenplas","year":"2015","journal-title":"Asia Pac. 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