Lactose intolerance test UK and Europe
Order Guidelines/Laboratory Info
Please note: The personal details that you use when you place your order need to be the same as the individual (name etc) who is taking the test. The order receipts are used to process test results and need to match accordingly. If you are purchasing the test for a family member or friend then please use their personal details at checkout.
- Once you have paid for the test you will receive a confirmation email
- Testing laboratory - Biolab Medical Unit are based in the West End of London and they specialise in nutritional and environmental medicine offering a wide range of tests and a test referral service (for their website please click here)
- Test kit delivery - Test kits ordered before 3pm Monday to Friday will be sent out the same day. Test kits ordered after 3pm Monday to Thursday will be sent out the following day morning time. Test kits ordered after 3pm Friday and over the course of the weekend will not be sent out till Monday morning the following week
- Sample collection/sending - The test kit is sent directly to you and the sample can be collected at home. The test kit comes with instructions on how to collect the sample and comes with the relevant packaging for you to send it back to the laboratory. Once the sample has been collected you need to post the kit back to Biolab. Normal postal charges will apply (large letter rates UK). It is advised to send the sample at the start of the week so that the laboratory receives it during the same working week
- Please note: You can only order this test within Europe
- Refunds - Refunds are only possible if the test kit is unused and no samples have been sent to Biolab. If a refund is required then please email - orders@mindovermetal.co.uk, someone will then be in contact to process your refund. The test kit can then be discarded
- Results - The test result is sent directly to you from mindovermetal Ltd and not from Biolab. The result is sent to the email that you provide when you place your order. Test results will come with an email from mindovermetal Ltd summarising your result reading. The test result is simple to understand and shows if you are above, below or within certain reference ranges. The turnaround time for results once the sample has reached the laboratory is 3 working days. Please make a note of the date you send the sample and if you do not receive your results within the time frame then please email orders@mindovermetal.co.uk and someone will be in contact
Please note: The personal details that you use when you place your order need to be the same as the individual (name etc) who is taking the test. The order receipts are used to process test results and need to match accordingly. If you are purchasing the test for a family member or friend then please use their personal details at checkout.
Description from Biolab
Lactose intolerance was formerly assessed by giving an oral dose of 50 gm of lactose (equivalent to the lactose load in 1 litre of cow's milk) and then monitoring the plasma glucose for 3 hours. A normal response is a rather modest rise in the plasma glucose, of greater than 1.2 mmol/L. The 'lactose tolerance test' is now rarely carried out. Even some control subjects, with no known relevant history, may exhibit some symptoms and fail to produce a significant rise in the plasma glucose, showing how prevalent is this condition.
A trial lactose-free diet may also provide a useful initial assessment for lactose intolerance, but small bowel biopsy with the assay of brush border disaccharidases used to provide the definitive diagnosis. Genetic testing based on an EDTA blood sample is now possible, but this gives information as to susceptibility, rather than the presence of the condition, which, being polymorphic in its genetics, requires the investigation of a number of gene loci.
Our experience is that the comparison of breath levels of hydrogen and methane before and after the consumption of a 25 gm lactose load provides a convenient and practical way of detecting the condition of lactose intolerance; this is of considerable importance in the investigation of a number of chronic conditions and its increasing prevalence reflects the dietary load of lactose from manufactured foods, as well as the extent of loss of brush border lactase.
A trial lactose-free diet may also provide a useful initial assessment for lactose intolerance, but small bowel biopsy with the assay of brush border disaccharidases used to provide the definitive diagnosis. Genetic testing based on an EDTA blood sample is now possible, but this gives information as to susceptibility, rather than the presence of the condition, which, being polymorphic in its genetics, requires the investigation of a number of gene loci.
Our experience is that the comparison of breath levels of hydrogen and methane before and after the consumption of a 25 gm lactose load provides a convenient and practical way of detecting the condition of lactose intolerance; this is of considerable importance in the investigation of a number of chronic conditions and its increasing prevalence reflects the dietary load of lactose from manufactured foods, as well as the extent of loss of brush border lactase.
