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Treatment

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The treatment is a lifelong galactose-free diet. This leads to a reversal of the severe manifestations of the disease.

Gene therapy will be difficult to achieve because transferase is normally active in many tissues, including the brain.

Note, lactose is a disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose. Care must be taken to avoid the administration of lactulose and lactitol osmotic laxatives.

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