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Suggest Tests To Diagnose Leaky Gut Syndrome

Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2015

Question: is leaky gut syndrome proven or it's just a theory? and is there and test to check if there ia leak in the gut? and how to heal leaky gut?

Answered by Dr. Prashant (19 hours later)

Brief Answer:
very few people use that terminology

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
the only thing about leaky gut is patient presents with lot of non specific symptoms that may be because of some allergen in food or poor eating habits,bacterial imbalance ,toxin overload or chronic stress.
The patient may present with malabsorption with vitamin deficency.
Treatment part includes the things which are causing this symptoms should be removed or replaced if any vitamin deficency is present etc.
And consider to take some good pre and probiotics like cap VSL#3 DAILY once for atleast 2 weeks .
hope this information helps you
thank you

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj

Follow up: Dr. Prashant (1 hour later)

Is there a way to test if the gut has leak?

Answered by Dr. Prashant (4 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
I dont think so there is any specific test to diagnose

Detailed Answer:
But the symptoms are as above I discussed ,its a very vague terminology and its always better to diagnose the particulars individually.
Thank you

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj