Indications:
This examination can detect digestive shortcomings from the analysis of digestion, performed on stool.
Principle:
It establishes, in this protocol, a microscopic study of food waste, substances of intestinal origin of the fecal flora, stool pH, organic acids and ammonia found in the stool.
Technique:
Stool sample, sufficient for physicochemical analysis.
Results:
They are explicitly shown by the laboratory.
Cost:
B50.
Practical advice:
The examination is hardly used because of more accurate current exams, the most advanced diagnostic techniques.However, historically deserves to be known.