Category: breath test

FDA Authorizes Breath Test to Detect COVID-19

For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized for emergency use a breath test to detect COVID-19. The InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer is the “size of a piece of carry-on luggage” and can analyze chemical compounds in breath samples to test for COVID-19, the FDA states. Samples can be collected and analyzed in…


How to Diagnose Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

In part one of this series, we gave an overview of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth—otherwise known as SIBO. It can be an insidious disease because so many of its symptoms overlap with other gut ailments. Misdiagnosis, or missing a diagnosis altogether, is very common. Yet the longer SIBO goes untreated, the more difficult it can…