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Anthony Hobson discusses the non-invasive breath tests currently used to assess gut function and looks to the future.
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Take the guesswork out of your patient's diagnoses
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If you want to safely, simply and accurately confirm or eliminate the possibility of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or carbohydrate malabsorption, breath testing is the answer. Through our partnership with specialists in gut health, Functional Gut Diagnostics, we can offer your patients (private or NHS) hydrogen methane breath testing at a cost within the NHS tariff – and we're already working with 9 NHS Trusts in the UK.
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Benefits
How can we support you and your patients?
If you’re a UK-based healthcare professional, we can take the stress out of providing a hydrogen methane breath testing service.
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Minimizes breaches and cancelled appointments due to staff shortages or DNA’s by patients
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Reduces staff burden with no limits on testing numbers and fast turnaround of results
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Test comes well within the current NHS tariff and cost includes the kit, analysis and reporting
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Full instructions come with the kit, alongside online videos and telephone support
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Patients can do the test at home with no need for a hospital appointment
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Once the test is completed, it is posted back to us using the free post envelope
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Our simple breath tests produce safe and accurate patient diagnoses:
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About the tests
How do breath tests for gut health work?
Hydrogen methane breath testing is a simple non-invasive way to investigate gastrointestinal health. Alongside the hydrogen and methane breath tests we offer for SIBO and carbohydrate malabsorption, breath tests have been validated for conditions such as Helicobacter pylori and the assessment of gastric emptying using stable 13C.
At Owlstone Medical, we’re global leaders in Breath Biopsy® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine and we’ve partnered with Functional Gut Diagnostics, leading providers of smart solutions for the diagnosis of gut health problems. We’re working together to provide valuable hydrogen and methane breath testing (HMBT) and develop further innovative breath tests for digestive health that improve patient wellbeing and save healthcare spending.
Find out more about how non-invasive breath testing is set to transform digestive health in our webinar with Dr Anthony Hobson, Clinical Director and Senior Clinical GI Scientist at the Functional Gut Clinic. Anthony has also recorded a podcast with Microbiome Matters on breath tests for SIBO.
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Download a sample report for a SIBO Breath Test
You can get an insight into the high quality of service we provide through our Hydrogen and Methane Breaths Tests in the UK by viewing a sample breath test report.
We've made available an example report for a patient who had completed a hydrogen and methane breath test (HMBT) to assess for SIBO. In this case the patient has tested positive. This is the type of report (including graphed data) that would be delivered to both NHS and private referrals, at a cost within the NHS tarrif.
How it works
Why are hydrogen and methane so important?
The breath tests we’re offering, alongside our partners Functional Gut Diagnostics, for SIBO and carbohydrate malabsorption detect small amounts of hydrogen and methane gases in your patients’ breath. These gases aren’t produced by our bodies, instead they come from the micro organisms living in our intestines. The amount of hydrogen and methane in your patients’ breath provides valuable insights into their gut health.
In SIBO, the extra bacteria in someone’s small intestine uses the sugars that they eat before their body absorbs it, converting it into hydrogen and methane. Similarly, when someone has a food intolerance, the sugars they’re intolerant to don’t get absorbed efficiently by their body, so there is plenty available for the micro organisms that live in their large intestine to convert into hydrogen and methane.
Some of the hydrogen and methane produced in our gut is absorbed into our blood. The hydrogen and methane in our blood is released in our lungs and can be measured on your patients’ breath with a breath test.
If you would like to learn more about the science behind digestive health breath testing this paper helps to explain the methods we use: