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fructose intolerance

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fructose intolerance
Etymology: L, fructus, fruit, in + tolerare, to bear
an inherited disorder marked by an absence of enzymes needed to metabolize fructose. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, confusion, digestive distress with vomiting, and failure of infants to grow. The condition is transmitted as an autosomal-recessive trait. Also called hereditary fructose intolerance.

fructose
(fruk´tōs),
n a yellowish-to-white, crystalline water-soluble levorotatory ketose monosaccharide that is sweeter than sucrose and is found in honey, several fruits, and combined in many disaccharides and polysaccharides. Also called
fruit sugar and
levulose.
fructose intolerance,
n an inherited disorder marked by an absence of enzymes needed to metabolize fructose. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, confusion, and digestive distress with vomiting, and failure of infants to grow.


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Also, rare enzyme deficiencies diagnosed early in life, such as hereditary fructose intolerance, may cause reactive hypoglycemia.
 
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