2.4 Problems With Enzymes Flashcards
Lactose intolerance is the inability to…
Digest lacose
Lactose intolerant means you don’t produce…
Lactase
Undigested lactose causes bacterial growth an large amounts of…
CO2 and lactic acid are produced
Undigested sugar lowers water potential of gut leading to…
Diarrhoea
Symptoms of lactose intolerance are…
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
Bloated stomach
Alternatives are…
Lactase or lactose free milk
Born with it but condition usually develops after…
2 years
Treatment is to…
Cut down on milk products or foods with lactose in
Take tablets- containing lactase
Pancreatitis is…
Severe inflammation of the pancreas
Pancreas produces…
Trypsin (digests protein)
Lipase
Amylase
Trypsin is produced in an inactive form, it will digest the protein of the…
Body if it isn’t
When pancreas produces active trypsin we get…
Pancreatitis
Acute is disease appeared suddenly it is…
Fast and cause severe damage to pancreatic tissue (high levels of amylase and lipase in blood)
Chronic is long term it causes…
Slow damage to pancreatic tissue (low levels of digestive enzyme in faeces)
Pancreatitis is diagnosed by a …
Blood test
