can you become lactose ?
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You can become lactose intolerant any time, just like you can develop allergies any time.\n\nThe first thing to do is to eliminate dairy from your diet for a couple of weeks, and see if the symptoms go away.
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Soy milk is not bad for you. In fact, if you're lactose intolerant (you can't digest milk), soy is one of the alternatives. My son drinks it for this reason. But at the same time, make sure you get enough calcium, protein and vitamin D because those are supplied by milk products.
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Not at all. The things you ingest will get into the breast milk.
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They must have hormones that can simulate lactating, I know they have one to do the reverse…better than getting pregnant like everyone is suggesting…you just have to find a doctor that’ll do it and then someone that isn't lactose intolerant.
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According to this article: http://www.newstarget.com/001078.html all you need to do is drink Soy milk because it contains a miracle molecule
496393
It may not be a lactose problem at all - you should see a gastrointerologist with your problem as it could be something more serious.  My husband drew the same conclusion several years ago and a couple of years later it no longer worked to avoid even lactose products, we discovered he had cancer - had we caught it earlier, he would not have spent 17 months in the hospital undergoing numerous spinal lymphatic surgeries, radiation, cobalt, and chemotherapy.
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I think this is largely false for most people.  In fact if you have lactose intolerance, which is not uncommon, you  may get diarrhea from cheese.  Lactase pills would help prevent this.
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No cure, but there is treatment you can buy at the store.  Try some lactose free milk, first and see how that sets with you.  You can also buy enzyme pills that replaces the natural enzyme we all need to process cow milk.  You know, only baby cows should drink cow milk....no humans.  There are so many hormones in it that we should be drinking it at all.  It is like a cow drinking human milk--it just wasn't meant to be.
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I just became lactose intolerant about a month ago. It started with awful bloating, gas, and some of the worst diarrhea I have ever had.\n\nI'm doing much better now that I have started taking these once daily pills. They work a lot better for me than lactase pills that I originally began taking.\n\nYou can find info about them at http://ganedenbiotech.com/index.php?page=DALI\n\nIf you try those pills, just be aware that it may take some time before they begin working all day long and you may have to take 2 daily like me.
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Have they tested to see if the child is lactose intolerant?  If he is and he is being forced to drink milk at home and school (for lunch), this could be the reason.
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Yeap, I developed it after my daughter was born, it has progressively gotten worst. First just milk bothered me, then cheese, now yogurt . . . it sucks! As far as diseases or medications which cause it, I am not aware of any, but I would suppose that anything which would kill the bacteria in your gut could have some type of affect. Lactose intolerance, as you stated, is simply a lack of an  enzyme that the bateria in your gut make to break-down lactose. I read (although I can not reference it at this moment) that if you stop ingesting dairy products, the bacteria stop making the enzyme, I am not sure if this is 100% correct, but perhaps it's a type of "evolutionary process" our individual bodies go through in adapting to our environment . . . that's my hypothesis :-)  Also, various ethnic groups, particulary hispanic's are lactose intolerant. \nI find it helpful to take those lactose pills, I have to take two if I want to drink a glass of milk, but every once in a while I just get a craving to go crazy on the dairy.
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Yes, sugar- either glucose, or in the case of dairy fermentations, lactose.
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The cheese-making process removes most of the lactose from the milk, so cheese contains very little lactose.  Usually that small amount isn't enough to make lactose intolerant people sick.  I am lactose intolerant and cheese has only made me sick once, when I ate a lot of pizza that had tons of cheese on it.  Cheese can be a good source of calcium for most lactose intolerant people.
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I had the same thing. I'm about your age. Have you had any milk or dairy products lately? when that happened to me...about 2 weeks ago  -  I went to the doctor immediatly and I was told that I am mildly lactose intolerant.
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so far the answers are correct - lactase is needed to break lactose down to simple sugars.  Lactose is a combination of 2 different sugar molecules.  Your intestines are only able to absorb certain types of simple sugars - so anything else cannot be absorbed.  Lactose isn't one of these simple sugars and must be broken down into (glucose and galactose) in order to be absorbed.\n\nIf you lack lactase, you can take the enzyme as a pill and it will break the lactose down - causing you to lactose tolerant again.
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you might be lactose intolerant
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Check into Gluten allergy. It is wheat basically...which is in everything just about..ugh... But if you cut out gluten in your body for a period of time it can help with lactose intolerance. I have seen it with lactose intolerant people.