In addition to the public health system, people in Ireland can avail of a range of private health care services. You must pay the full costs of treatment if you opt for private health care. There are a number of private health insurance companies in Ireland.
Amylase is a enzyme that breaks down starch. It does not break it down into its monomer, glucose. Amylase hydrolyses starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides. One of those disaccharides is maltose. These disaccharides and trisaccharides are then hydrolysed by other enzymes, e.g. maltase hydrolyses maltose.
Dietary lactose and sucrose are ready for digestion by their respective brush border enzymes. Starch, as discussed previously, is first digested to maltose by amylase in pancreatic secretions and, in some species, saliva. glucose generated by digestion of starch or lactose is absorbed in the small intestine only by cotransport with sodium, a fact that has exceptionally important implications in medicine.