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How to check for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth means what tests to check you are suffering from them?
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See a GI doctor: Intestinal overgrowth syndrome usually occurs only under very circumscribed circumstances with predisposing risk factors. If you have these and are manifesting symptoms of malabsorption you should be seen promptly by a GI doctor.
Answered 6/10/2014
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