22	Chapter 3 Dietary carbohydrate and diesease

eliminate dental caries should focus on fluoridation and adequate oral hygiene, and not on sucrose intake alone.

Other conditions

There are a number of inherited conditions having significant implications for restricted dietary carbohydrate intake in infants and children. These include rare conditions such as galactosemia, fructose intolerance, a wide range of glycogen storage diseases, sucrase deficiencies and monosaccharide transport deficiencies. Though rare in incidence, their early detection and careful dietary management is important if severe handicap or pathology is to be avoided.