Sucrose-isomaltose malabsorption.

In the beginning of this century diarrhea occurring in some children and adults was shown to be provoked, apparently, by carbohydrates in the food (Schmidt and Strasburger, 1901; Jacobi, 1901; Howland, 1921; Hurst and Knott, 1931). Fermentative dyspepsia, fermentative diarrhea, starch intolerance, intestinal carbohydrate dyspepsia, and intolerance of carbohydrate are terms which have been used to describe these conditions.