The relationship between SIBO and IBS is highly inconsistent among studies35. SIBO is often diagnosed on the basis of various techniques for carbohydrate breath testing36. However, in a recent study Yu et al.37 demonstrated that lactulose breath testing detects oro-caecal transit, not small ...
Several studies have indicated that colonic microbiota may exhibit important differences between patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and healthy controls. Less is known about the microbiota of the small bowel. We used massive parallel sequencing to explore the composition of small bowel mucosa...
The difference between prebiotics and probiotics boils down to the fact that probiotics are alive, while prebiotics are not. People often mix up the two due to the similarities in their names. Prebiotics are food for probiotics. For probiotics to be happy and want to stick around, they need ...