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  2. Lactose intolerance - Wikipedia

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    In a hydrogen breath test, the most accurate lactose intolerance test, after an overnight fast, 25 grams of lactose (in a solution with water) are swallowed. If the lactose cannot be digested, enteric bacteria metabolize it and produce hydrogen, which, along with methane, if produced, can be detected on the patient's breath by a clinical gas ...

  3. Prescription charges - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptions in England are free for: children under 16, people 16–18 and in full-time education, people who get some means-tested benefits such as Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance or the guaranteed credit part of Pension Credit and Universal Credit if their net earnings are £435 or less in the last month, or £935 or less ...

  4. NHS Low Income Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The NHS Low Income Scheme is intended to reduce the cost of NHS prescription charges, NHS dentistry, sight tests, glasses and contact lenses, necessary costs of travel to receive NHS treatment, NHS wigs and fabric supports, i.e. spinal or abdominal supports or surgical brassieres supplied through a hospital.

  5. Woman who miscarried fined by NHS for claiming free ... - AOL

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    A woman who miscarried was fined by the NHS for claiming a free prescription while pregnant.. Sadie Hawkes, 33, lost her baby before she had received the maternity exemption certificate that ...

  6. Hydrogen breath test - Wikipedia

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    The patient is then given a small amount of pure lactose (typically 20 to 25 g), and then required to take readings every 15, 30 or 60 minutes for two to three hours. If the level of hydrogen rises above 20 ppm (parts per million) over the lowest preceding value within the test period, the patient is typically diagnosed as a lactose malabsorber ...

  7. Milk allergy - Wikipedia

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    Milk allergy is distinct from lactose intolerance, which is a nonallergic food sensitivity caused by the lack of the enzyme lactase in the small intestines to break lactose down into glucose and galactose. The unabsorbed lactose reaches the large intestine, where resident bacteria use it for fuel, releasing hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane ...

  8. Any Qualified Provider - Wikipedia

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    Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service. The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010. In 2011 the name of the system was changed ...

  9. Alfred Wöhlk - Wikipedia

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    With his historical detection reaction from 1904, the lactose content of dairy products can be visualized. [2] This is useful because many people are lactose intolerant and avoid dairy products. Countless pharmacy students, but also physicians, laboratory assistants, and recently also chemistry teachers know the Wöhlk test. [3]