Brain Fogginess and SIBO: A Link or Just a Mirage?

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2018, Pages

  Sachdeva, Sanjeev ^a   Puri, A S ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a   Dalal, Ashok ^a   Dahale, Amol Sonyabapu ^a  

^a G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BLOATING; BRAIN FOGGINESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIBROMYALGIA; GLUCOSE BREATH TEST; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSONISM; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ACIDOSIS; BRAIN; FLATULENCE; SMALL INTESTINE;

ACIDOSIS; BRAIN; FLATULENCE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85053677858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2155384X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41424-018-0055-y     Document Type: Letter

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