Metabolic Diseases/Disorders Flashcards

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What is Lactose Intolerance

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Lactose is too big to pass through digestive tract lining
- must be broken down into galactose and glucose by lactase
- there is underproduced lactase
- lactose remains in the GI tract and ferments

symptoms = farting, diarrhoea, cramps, bloating

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What is Galactosemia?

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inherited autosomal recessive disorder of a deficiency of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase

  • can be screened for at birth
  • if its not active in the eye
  • aldose reductase reduces galactose into galactitol
    = cataracts in the eye

symptoms = enlargement of liver, CNS failure

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How do you Prevent Caries Undergoing Glycolysis?

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fluoride
- inhibits enolase

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