LTC3 - lactose in goats milk?

[Kazander]

Originally Posted by nerdvana

Another option is supplements you can add to the milk to predigest the lactose. We get drops we add to our milk because one of my daughters and I are lactose intolerant and it works well. The milk ends up sweeter, but that's not a problem.

This depends entirely on your level of lactose intolerance (i.e. how much lactase enzyme your body is still producing.) Typically your stomach doesn't drop off to 0% of 'normal'.

I however, am not typical. My stomach produces very close to 0% of the 'normal' amount of lactase enzyme. The drops were the first thing I tried when I discovered I was lactose intolerant. It worked for a few weeks and then it ceased to be sufficient.

Like all chemical reactions, the drops do not induce a 100% perfect reaction. There is still lactose left after they do their work. The store-bought version of the milk with the enzyme already in it, marketed as Lactaid here in Canada, is better because the reaction is done on an industrial scale under controlled conditions--rather than in your fridge. You get about 99% lactose free. However, I still cannot tolerate that.

As I said, soy and rice-based substitutes are all that work for me.

Ze'Manel Cunha's synopsis on the topic is right on the money. There is a great lack of understanding the difference between a milk allergy and lactose intolerance. The first is an immune system reaction (like any allergy) to a milk protein, the latter is the inability to digest and absorb the milk sugar.

Edit: I'm just looking at Lactaid's website now, and they're claiming 100% lactose free now. It didn't used to be that way. I may have to check it out again.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Kazander

Edit: I'm just looking at Lactaid's website now, and they're claiming 100% lactose free now. It didn't used to be that way. I may have to check it out again.

Yeah, if I recall, they wised up about 5 years ago or so.

You may also want to try the lactaid pills (fast-acting lactase enzyme), they're a life-saver IMO, and usually found in pharmacies next to other digestive aids like Beano and Pepto-Bismol, though since they're generic they don't tend to get good placement.

[Kazander]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

You may also want to try the lactaid pills (fast-acting lactase enzyme), they're a life-saver IMO, and usually found in pharmacies next to other digestive aids like Beano and Pepto-Bismol, though since they're generic they don't tend to get good placement.

Oh, yes I have been doing so for about.....10 years already. :-) It's the only way I feel safe eating at restaurants. The problem is always trying to guess how many you need for a given meal....and learning the hard way when you're wrong.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Kazander

Oh, yes I have been doing so for about.....10 years already. :-) It's the only way I feel safe eating at restaurants. The problem is always trying to guess how many you need for a given meal....and learning the hard way when you're wrong.

Yeah, then you gotta deal with relatives that assure there's no dairy in the meal they prepared, so you trust them and don't take a lactaid pill, only to start feeling things churning and find out later that they don't consider margarine to be dairy, despite the fact you've told them it's dairy for most brands.

On the bright side I've now found plenty of margarine types that don't have dairy in them for my own use, and anything labeled parve is dairy free, makes those kosher labels useful for something, as long as you can distinguish the kosher parve labels from the kosher dairy labels.

[sir_pudding]

Again, has anybody actually submitted this? I will if no-one else does.