Determinación de lactosa mediante Método Clinitest en niños menores de 3 años con diarrea aguda y su relación con la Intolerancia a la Lactosa que acuden al laboratorio Movilab en el período octubre 2014 – febrero 2015

Abstract

Lactose is a disaccharide consisting of two monosaccharides, glucose and galactose, the same that are found exclusively in the milk of mammals and is the main source of carbohydrates during lactation. To carry out its absorption in the small intestine have to suffer a process of hydrolysis by an enzyme called lactase. Lactose intolerance in children is symptomatic response to consumption of lactose, different consideration and intensity, mainly are a number of digestive disorders such as acute diarrhea in most cases which leads to malnutrition in children if not it is detected early.

This research was conducted in the laboratory Movilab S.A. of the Ambato’s City, whose objective was to determine lactose by the method of Clinitest in children under 3 years with acute diarrhea and its relationship with lactose intolerance for which they were assessed evaluating the results obtained in this way the usefulness and importance of Clinitest method as a parameter guiding lactose intolerance in the positive to take corrective detected during the review actions.

The research was descriptive an analysis or diagnosis of data was performed and the study also tried to prove that the Clinitest method is the best option in clinical laboratory that can serve as a guiding parameter for the diagnosis of lactose intolerance. Of the total samples analyzed a total of 103 children, 25 of them were positive which represents 24.3 %, while 78 were negative equivalent to 75.7 % of the study population, turn something important to take into account it was that there was a higher rate of positive test Clinitest in the population of 0-1 year old, of whom 19 children tested positive being 76% of the total of 25 children, particularly affected the Male Gender with 60 % of positive results Female Gender difference with 40%.