How can I determine if my child is lactose intolerant, or Dairy intolerant?

I don't know if the doctor explained this to you, but it helps to understand what it means to be lactose intolerance. In the normal body, your body produces a lactase enzyme that helps break down the lactose in milk or milk products into their sugars. In your system, the lactase enzyme is not being properly produced, so you will have problems digesting milk products.

It makes sense that the more concentrated the amount of milk, the worse you will feel. I can't, for instance, down a glass of milk or I will be in pain, but I can eat pasta with sauce that contains milk. Older cheeses are easier to digest that milder cheese, because the lactose has already begun to break down into its sugars, so you body doesn't need to do as much work.

So although I can't drink milk, I can eat cheese. But I try to have a good balance. If I eat too many items with cheese it them, I will be hurting, so never eat pizza two days in a row.

If I'm feeling a little bit off, I avoid pizza and cheese or creamy foods. I can eat yogurt, but not a lot of it, and I can't overdo it in the next meal by eating something really cheesy. At one point my lactose intolerance was worse, where I could not eat a bowl of creamy soup, or I would be doubled over in pain, but I can now eat a bowl on occasion.

You can buy lactase milk, that has already been broken down into its sugars, but it tastes *very* sweet, like the milk left at the bottom of a bowl of sugary cereal. You can also drink a glass of milk without problems if you eat a lactase chewable tablet, which you can buy at any major drugstore. You are adding the enzyme into your system before ingesting milk products, so although your body is not producing it properly, you are getting it into your body.

Other alternatives are soy milk, goat's milk, rice milk, nut milk, hemp milk and oat milk. I've only ever seen the first four in the list in the grocery store. http://foodallergies.about.com/od/dairy/... Some people with lactose intolerance also have irritable bowel syndrome, where your intestine has problems with hard to digest foods, and intestine can go into painful spasms after eating these things.

If you have this as well, you may find that you are not able to handle as much milk products in your system, as the fat content may also make your IBS flare up. So what you can do is either go for the lactase milk (lactose free milk) and other lactose free products or alternatives, the chewables while enjoying milk products, or don't take anything and start off by taking milk and milk products out of your diet, and slowly introduce them back in to find out your tolerance threshold. Keep a daily diary, noting what you ate and drank, and how you felt afterwords.

You may even feel pain 6 hours after eating something, because it may take a while to digest, but it may be associated with the previous meal. If you feel pains, back off on the milk products, or at least take the chewables or regular milk alternatives. Hope that helps!

Oh, and if you have IBS, I would think that you should avoid the nut milk as an alternative, because I know nuts are hard to digest and have a higher fat content, which may cause you pain.

You should not in reality eat anything with dairy in it. It severely affects your intestines and will cause you immense pain. The worse offenders are of course the usual ones, Milk, yogurt, ect.

Otherwise some things do not contain milk that you think do, just look at the back of the package. Otherwise you might be able to do it in small doses without causing to much harm but you really need to discuss it with your doctor and find out what works for you.

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