Is lactose handling by women with lactose malabsorption improved during pregnancy?
Women with lactose malabsorption handle lactose better than usual in late pregnancy. Slow intestinal transit and bacterial adaptation to increased lactose intake may be primarily responsible.
In patients with epilepsy, female sex, poor visual memory or global neuropsychological underperformance and low IQ are associated with an increased risk of PNES. MRI changes, epileptiform EEG abnormalities and location of epileptogenic zone do not show a predilection for one hemisphere.