The symptoms of sucrose intolerance

Sucrose intolerance can be defined as clinical deficiency of sucrase-isomaltase results in the inability to digest and absorb dietary sucrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide like lactose and requires the enzyme sucrose for digestion.

The conditions becomes manifest during infancy upon the introduction of sucrose in fruits and juices or glucose polymers in formula. The inability to digest succors results in signs and symptoms of malabsorption in including diarrhea, increased gas production, and abdominal distension.

Sucrose intolerance can lead to mental and emotional problems, such as panic attacks, depression, insomnia, mood swings that can progress to a bipolar disorder and a tendency towards irritable, aggressive or violent behavior.

Primary sucrose intolerance is rare, other than in the native populations of the Arctic. About 10% of Inuit population of Greenland and Canada is sucrose intolerant. The occurrence of sucrose intolerance among these populations is consistent with lack of availability of sucrose-containing staples.

People in Greenland traditionally have consumed meat as the major food source, and not fruit or sugar cane.
The symptoms of sucrose intolerance

Vitamin K deficiency

Deficiency of vitamin K, an element necessary for formation of prothrombin and other clotting factors in the liver, produces abnormal bleeding.

Vitamin K deficiency can be caused by any of the following:
*A poor diet
*Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis
*Liver disease that interferes vitamin K storage
*The use of antibiotics, cholesterol-lowering drugs, mineral oil, aspirin and blood thinners

About one-half of the vitamin K may be provided by bacterial synthesis. Consequently, vitamin K deficiency may occur in adults subjects treated with antibiotics with antibiotics for extended period.

Low blood levels of vitamin K are associated with insulin release and glucose regulation problems, and may lead to low bone density in women.

Supplementing the diet with this vitamin enhances then bone building process by attracting calcium to the bone.

Supplemental vitamin K also reduces the amount of calcium in the urine and frees up more calcium to be used by the bone-building process.

The cardinal sign of vitamin K deficiency is an abnormal bleeding tendency, accompanied by prolonged prothrombin time; these signs disappear with vitamin K administration.
Vitamin K deficiency 

Symptoms of vitamin K deficiency

Deficiency of vitamin K, an element necessary for formation of prothrombin and other clotting factors in the liver, produces abnormal bleeding.

Vitamin K deficiency in the general population, but the risk is significantly greater in infants especially premature infants and those who are exclusively breast fed.

The cardinal sign of vitamin K deficiency is an abnormal bleeding tendency, accompanied by prolonged prothrombin time these signs disappear with vitamin K administration. Without treatment, bleeding may be severe and possibly fatal.

The symptoms of vitamin K deficiency included significant hemorrhage following mild trauma, ecchymosis, petechiae, hematomas, oozing of blood, loss of blood in stool or urine, nose bleed, hematuria, menorrhagia, epistaxis, heavy menstrual flow and mucosal bleeds.

Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn, characterized by a tendency to bleed, is the principal form of vitamin K deficiency.
Symptoms of vitamin K deficiency

What are symptoms of food allergy?

What is food allergy? A food allergy is an immune system response that creates antibodies to attack substances in a food that body immune system identifies as harmful.

Having sudden allergic symptoms within an hour or two of eating a food should raise suspicions of food allergy. Symptoms of food allergies including:

Respiratory symptoms 
*Rhinitis – copious watery discharged from mucous membrane of nose
*Asthma – pulmonary distress or breathing difficulty

Cutaneous symptoms 
*Urticaria – hives. It is one of the most common symptoms of anaphylaxis.
*When foods cause a constant inflammation in the body, the person may have chronic rashes of allergic eczema, also called atopic dermatitis.

Gastrointestinal symptoms 
*They may be gut symptoms of vomiting, pain or diarrhea. Chronic stomachache can be the sign of a food allergy.
*Diarrhea – watery stools, usually with cramping
*Itching in the mouth
*Swelling of the tongue

Other symptoms
*Angio-edema/edema – swelling, often widespread and severe especially when affecting the oral / laryngeal area. It is one of the common symptoms of anaphylaxis.
*Anaphylactic shock –severe generalized shock – can result in death headache. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic retain that is rapid in onset and can be fatal.
*Weight loss and poor growth of children
What are symptoms of food allergy?