I did my last hydrogen breath test video a few years ago and there have been updates since then on whether it is accurate or not. I tell you about the latest research in the video.
Transcript of Hydrogen Breath Test Update
Welcome to this video. Today I want to give you an update on the hydrogen breath test. I did my last video on this quite a long time ago and there has been some research done since then. They recently did a research study on the efficacy of the fructose test. The hydrogen breath test tests fructose, lactose, and in some parts of the world also sorbitol, but not the other groups. So, I don’t really advocate the hydrogen breath test because it doesn’t test for the other groups, for the oligosaccharides and mannitol. So you still have to do the low Fodmap diet to find out whether you react to them or not. So you might as well just do the diet and not go and do the hydrogen breath test, which is time-consuming and expensive. Anyway, the research study that they did on how efficient the fructose test was completely bombed. So the results were that people who took the fructose test one week and passed it, the next week on exactly the same diet failed it, and vice versa. Those who failed it the first time passed it the second time. Therefore, we now know that it’s not giving accurate results. It doesn’t work. And they haven’t done the same tests as far as I know on lactose and sorbitol, so we’re not sure if those tests work or not. At this point, if they can’t test for fructose, they can’t test for the oligosaccharides or mannitol, there is very little point in doing the hydrogen breath test and spending your hard-earned money on it. So that’s the update at this point and I hold firm in that there is no need to do it. Thank you for watching and goodbye.
Thank you for the update. for some reason I get 4 copies of each e-mail from you. Is it possible for you to check it out.
Barbara, simply go to the bottom of three of them and click on the unsubscribe link.
Thats useful. I am curious about the hair strand test.
Unfortunately, there is no science behind the hair strand testing, Rhona.
Was the Methane test done?
Did they try both Lactulose and Glucose?
Do you have the link to the study to show my doctor?
So there were false negatives as well as positives? If you fail the test,
you could might not have SIBO?
Would a bowel reaction to the Oligosaccharides foods always show up
in a day if one has slow transit time? Might a delayed reaction be a
Food Intolerance instead?
A methane test is always done to determine if the tester is a hydrogen or methane breather. Look up the Monash University research centre site and see if you can find the research they did there. Yes, both false negatives and positives. In other words the testing doesn’t work for SIBO or fructose. They haven’t done specific research for the efficiency of the lactose breath test that I know of.
Yes, a reaction may be even two days later.