Dialysis, a procedure to remove waste products from the blood, may also be recommended for adults if ammonia levels too high. Lactulose is a first-line therapy often prescribed to decrease ammonia ...

Ammonia crosses the blood—brain barrier following ... 9 No treatment-related severe AEs were noted in either the PEG group or the lactulose group, and both therapies were considered safe.

Lactulose is used for the treatment of HE. There is no study on the prevention of overt HE using lactulose in patients who never had HE earlier. Methods: Consecutive cirrhotic patients who never ...

Treatment usually consists of purgative ammonia-lowering therapy, such as the disaccharide lactulose, and/or nonabsorbable antibiotics. Mariano Malaguarnera and colleagues from the University of ...

The present pilot study was conducted to investigate clinical and immunohistological effects of lactulose in IBD patients. Maybe due to the low number of patients enrolled in this study no ...