A positive TST or IGRA test result means that the person is likely to have been exposed to TB. It may be due to a latent or active TB infection. If a health practitioner suspects that someone has active tuberculosis, other tests, such as chest X-rays and AFB laboratory testing, are used to confirm the diagnosis.
In IBS the sugars can help create gas, which then puts pressure on the gut and causes the colon to expand and the expanding realeases neurotransmitters that can cause symptoms. Pain and d. But there is an underlying functional problem, not the sugar itself or gas or bacteria. IBS Forum Moderator. I am not a doctor.
People have been sounding warnings about the dangers of too much sugar for a long time. As early as 1957, John Yudkin, a professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, began arguing that when it came to heart disease and other chronic ailments, sugar â not fat â was the culprit. So what happens if you eat too much sugar? Here's a depressing rundown. 1. Cavities. Trust your dentist on this one: Sugar is such an enemy to dental health that one study way back in 1967 called it the arch criminal behind cavities. The connection between sugar and cavities is perhaps the best established.