This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...

Lactulose is a medication used to treat hepatic encephalopathy, a complication of cirrhosis. It works on your digestive system to reduce levels of toxins like ammonia. If you have cirrhosis ...

mental state grade 1 or 2 hepatic encephalopathy and hyperammonemia were randomly allocated to receive either Bifidobacterium and fructo-oligosaccharides or lactulose for 60 days. Psychometric ...

Possible effects of this are a spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, deterioration in hepatic encephalopathy or the ... the quite often prescribed lactulose which is used in order to alter the ...