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“Still, concerning lactulose , the authors considered that its use was a predictor of HE , which we do not agree with because we understand that patients using lactulose probably already had HE.”
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics • 2010 | View Paper
“They strongly suggested that lactulose should not be considered the standard of care as treatment or be the mandatory comparator in randomized controlled trials of HE treatment.13 However, this is not to say that lactulose doesn’t have its place in the treatment of HE.”