Is it possible to be fructose intolerant?

[Syringer]

It seems that everytime I drink a whole lot of orange or apple juice (maybe 3-4 times already) without having much to eat with it..I end up spending a good portion afterward in the bathroom. Coincedence or not?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Syringer
It seems that everytime I drink a whole lot of orange or apple juice (maybe 3-4 times already) without having much to eat with it..I end up spending a good portion afterward in the bathroom. Coincedence or not?

HA!

 

[minendo]

Have the same problems when you eat fruit?

 

[Syringer]

No actually.

And I usually drink things with low percentages of actual fruit juice in it..so it's more like fake fructose intolerance..

 

[eakers]

maybe its some sort of preservative they put into the juice.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Orange juice is disgusting! Not fresh squeezed, but the factory made stuff. Thick and nasty!

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Solution: Don't drink juice - drink water or something else...

 

[labrat25]

it's not likely it's the fructose... fructose = sugar = calories = what keeps you alive!

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Solution: Don't drink juice - drink water or something else...

I agree, don't drink juice.

 

[kami333]

It's possible but not very likely. If you were, the bathroom would be the least of your worries.

 

[bdunosk]

Wow... biochem is going to pay off. There is such a thing, you might lack an enzyme in the breakdown.

The internet is your friend.

Oh yeah... it could just be the apple juice. It has that effect on some people without lacking the enzyme. Probably just best to avoid it.

 

[Mill]

Same thing happens to me. I was told it was the acidic content. If I drink OJ I spend about 6 hours on the pot. It sucks.

 

[sillymofo]

I don't think you can be fructose intolerant, cuz you would be dead.

 

[BigPoppa]

Theres a difference between intolerant and fatally allergic. Lactose and Fructose are sugars. If you can be lactose intolerant, I see no reason you can't be fructose intolerant. Like bdunosk said, you may not be able to digest it properly due to an enzyme deficiency. Lactaid = breaks lactose into sucrose and fructose, for those who are lactose intolerant.

 

[CJZ]

Apple juice contains fructose and sorbital. Your body cannot absorb all these sugars and so some remains in the GI tract leading to what is known as "osmotic diarrhea". Basically, the sugars pull fluids from the body into the colon leading to watery stools.

Solution: don't drink so much apple juice (pear juice is also a freq. offender).

 

[DWW]

mmm nothing better than a tall glass of tropicana 100% pure OJ with added extra pulp to start off my morning

(that is along with a bowl of vector cereal with skim milk, half of a cantaloupe, cup of blueberries and sometimes a banana if I can fit it all in )

 

Originally posted by: DWW
mmm nothing better than a tall glass of tropicana 100% pure OJ with added extra pulp to start off my morning

(that is along with a bowl of vector cereal with skim milk, half of a cantaloupe, cup of blueberries and sometimes a banana if I can fit it all in )

damn you. You are making me hungry.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I don't think it's the fructose, I know the pediatrician recommends apple juice as a laxative sometimes. You could experiment with some fructose in your tea or cereal & see if that does anything to you.

 

[Shanteli]

I'm both fructose and lactose intolerant...and that means all sodas and fruits....and dairy etc...yeah it sucks royally.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Shanteli
I'm both fructose and lactose intolerant...and that means all sodas and fruits....and dairy etc...yeah it sucks royally.

OUCH.......that sucks!
so what do you drink? water only?

 

[Eli]

Where does it end?

What if you were glucose intolerant? :Q

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Eli


Where does it end?

What if you were glucose intolerant? :Q

What if you didn't have a FACE?!????

 

[IGBT]

Sorbital turns me into a fartin machine...stuff iz terrible........

 

[iliopsoas]

Originally posted by: Syringer
It seems that everytime I drink a whole lot of orange or apple juice (maybe 3-4 times already) without having much to eat with it..I end up spending a good portion afterward in the bathroom. Coincedence or not?

Yes, there is a metabolic disorder where an ezyme deficiency causes hereditary fructose intolerance. If you have such a condition, it should have been detected during infancy.

If you have this bathroom problem with orange juice but not with fruits, then you're probably allergic or sensitive to something in the juice but NOT fructose. Fructose is found in fruits and then eventually gets converted to glucose.