Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption

Abstract

CHRONIC diarrhea, clinically indistinguishable from that due to intestinal disaccharidase deficiency, may also be caused by monosaccharide malabsorption. The initial case descriptions were reported almost simultaneously from Sweden and France in 1962. In a series of papers the Swedish authors1 2 3 4 described 4 patients with this disorder, 3 of whom were related. The family pedigree disclosed deaths from chronic, unexplained, watery diarrhea in 6 infants within the first six months of life. The French authors5 reported on 2 living patients and the death of a sibling of 1 patient in early infancy from chronic diarrhea. More recently a seventh case was . . .