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H2 Hydrogen Breath Test

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Dear Patient/ Dear Parents!

The hydrogen exhalation requires preparations. To get appraisable results , We’d like to ask you to keep up with the forwardings!

In case of fever, catarrhal illnesses, the examination can not be done.

In the time of booking, please inform your therapist about any illnesses in the last 4 weeks, and also about the medicines, pills you take temporarly or constantly. About those medicines include lactose , your therapist decides the contingent break, and in the time of assessment notices the medicine’s lactose contents. Antibiotics can influence the results, so it’s recommended to finish it 4 weeks before your appointment.

Do not take any antibiotics 4 weeks before and any aperient or gastric emptying tablets 1 week before the examination. ( For example : Cerucal, Motilium, Domperidon, Itoprid)

On the day before the examination (from the morning):

  • Do not eat any vegetables, fruits, legumes ( neither cooked or crude)
  • Do not eat any foods made with fat or oil, or oil-seeds
  • Do not eat that kind of food cooked with vegetables
  • Do not eat any dairy-product , or any foodstuff includes lactose
  • Do not drink milk, fizzy drinks, juices, or any kind of alcoholic drinks
  • Do not smoke

You can eat/drink :

  • Cooked, naturally fried or stewed : potatoes, rice, ham, poultries, fish, eggs, pastas
  • Only lactose free cold meat, sausage, margarine
  • Foods, made with white flour  : bread, crescent, bun
  • Drink : only non-carbonated water  

After 19 o’ clock do not eat, after 21 o’ clock do not drink.

In the evening,(12 hours before the examination) brush your teeth thoroughly .

On the day of the examination:

The test requires empty stomach, and the examination lasts 3 hours.

Before the examination do not use toothpaste , mouthwash, lip gloss or lipstick.  Do not eat sugars, candy or chewing-gum.  Do not take your morning pills. Don't smoke.
Important to brush your teeth thoroughly without toothpaste in the morning ( do not swallow the brushing water), first after wake up, and once again, before you leave home (without toothpaste).

Thank you for the cooperation!

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