The new research findings seem to be a gift for the doctors and patients as diagnostic methods are simplified. You can know your disease diagnosed with a breath test instead of blood and urine tests. However, the new methods needs to be much developed.

Breath-Test Research for Disease

Researchers at Swansea University found a new method for finding out serious illness from breath samples. This method can be applied for cancer, diabetes and other diseases too. “Many techniques were found unreliable previously”. - said researchers.

“High concentrations of odor in breath such as pear drops in relation to diabetes, ammonia in relation to hepatitis, and dimethyl sulphide to cirrhosis can correlate with disease”. - said Dr Masood Yousef, research assistant for Printing and Coating, Swansea University.

“It is easier to collect breath than blood and urine. Diagnostic methods based on exhaled breath are less developed in comparison to blood or urine tests and not widely practiced in clinical practice,” he added.

Can breath test find out schizophrenia?

There are about 400 different elements found in the human breath. The abnormal elements are used to diagnose the most diseases. “Schizophrenia could be diagnosed and monitored with a breath test. People with schizophrenia have higher levels of gases include carbon disulphide, pentane, ethane and butane in their breath” - said the scientists, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

“It is a preliminary research but we need to find out certain promising results.” - said Dr Marion Ross, biochemist at the Highland Psychiatric Research Foundation.

US scientists have found a breath color test through which unique chemical changes can be seen in the breath of people with lung cancer. “The hues of 36 dots detect lung cancer accurately” - said the researchers.

Volatile Organic Compounds

Lung cancer cells give off certain type of chemicals called as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Scientists have used sensitive machines like gas mass spectroscopy and chromatography to read VOCs with accuracy. The researchers were able to predict the presence of lung cancer with the help of breath, this is crucial as lung cancer is often silent in its early stages - explained by Dr Peter Mazzone. “This is not an expensive diagnostic test for lung cancer,” they explained.

“People with lung diseases have bad breath”- Said the scientists, University of Virginia, United States. Patients with asthma and cystic fibrosis have acidic breath - Researchers added.

Scientist said “doctors can distinguish the healthy patients and diseased patients quite easily as healthy people will have alkaline breath.” Breath tests are really a simple and reliable method for detecting lung diseases.

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