There’s a quiet sugar that most people never think about: galactose. It doesn’t show up on most food labels. It’s not as ...

Lactose consists of 2 sugars together – glucose and galactose. The body produces the enzyme lactase, which breaks those 2 ...

According to the American College of Gastroenterology, our bodies rely on a digestive enzyme called lactase to help break down lactose into simple sugars (called glucose and galactose).

Background and aims: Hypoglycemia is a typical, potentially life-threatening symptom in classical galactosemia with blood galactose considerably elevated (up to ∼100 mg/dl). Therefore we tested ...