Ways To Treat Galactosemia
December 18, 2018
Lactose intolerance is a common condition that involves being incapable of digesting the sugar lactose, so it goes through the digestive tract without being metabolized. But lactose intolerance is only one of the numerous ways the body can have problems with processing sugars. Lactose normally breaks down into two sugars: glucose and galactose. Certain genetic mutations can prevent one of these sugars, galactose, from breaking down further and causes it to build up within our bodies. When galactose builds up in the body due to a genetic mutation, it's called galactosemia. Treating it differs from its more popular but distantly related sugar processing disorder. Learn more about this now.