Eating fruit sugar or the sweetener fructose is not unhealthy. Nevertheless, doctors at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) found that these substances cause severe abdominal pain in some children.
Stomachache
Children who get stomachaches from these sweeteners have a so-called 'fructose intolerance' † The doctors found out after they tested a group of 245 patients who had persistent abdominal pain † The doctors already knew that the children did not have Crohn's disease or other serious intestinal disorders members.
With a breath test, the doctor could detect a fructose intolerance determine. And what turned out? More than half of the patients responded positively to the test. These patients were then placed on a fructose-free diet, after which two-thirds of the patients the abdominal pain disappeared †
Stopping sweets proves difficult for many women>
Unfortunately for children with a fructose intolerance, this substance is in many products, such as fruit † Especially in the United States, it is present in many products due to the use of fructose syrup as a sweetener †
