Food intolerances and the small intestine
- Authors: Parfenov A.I.1
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- Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center
- Issue: Vol 94, No 2 (2022)
- Pages: 153-159
- Section: Editorial
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-3660/article/view/105506
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.26442/00403660.2022.02.201364
- ID: 105506
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The article presents an analysis of the literature on food intolerance (FS) associated with the presence in the diet of fermentable oligodimosaccharides and polyols FODMAP (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols), histamine and food additives. The relationship between FS and insufficient activity of enzymes of the small intestine mucosa, in particular, in patients with irritable bowel syndrome, is discussed. FS often noted in them forces them to strictly adhere to the elimination diet and significantly impair the quality of life due to dissatisfaction with the results of treatment. Analysis of the literature has confirmed in many patients with irritable bowel syndrome an etiotropic relationship with poor food tolerance and dictates the need for randomized studies to further study the pathogenetic mechanisms of increasing food tolerance under the influence of cytoprotective therapy.
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Asfold I. Parfenov
Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center
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Email: asfold@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9782-4860
д-р мед. наук, проф., зав. отд. патологии кишечника
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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