Abstract
Fifty-one oral galactose tolerance tests were performed on 44 subjects whose ages ranged from 2 days to 37 years. Compared with older children and adults, newborn infants less than 8 days of age showed lower fasting blood glucose levels and a greater rise of blood glucose during the first half hour of the test; galactose was much less frequently demonstrated in the blood by paper chromatography. It is suggested that these findings may indicate that in the newborn infant galactose is more readily converted to glucose than in older subjects, and that this may compensate for the hypoglycemia of infancy.
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