If some ppl. just don't have the lactase enzyme shouldnt lactose be sort of a laxative?

1 sciencefun, regarding your answer "Some people do have diarrhea as one symptom of their intolerance...but there is more at work here. ":As a kid the digestive part wasn't a problem yet. By the time I got to school I was throwing up.

The teacher sent me to the nurse and she would send me home. The fun part was the discussion between my Mom and the doctor. She saying I needed to drink milk and him telling her that if it made me throw up it wasn't healthy.

He asked her if I threw up when I didn't drink milk and she said no. Then he asked about the family and if anyone else was lactose intolerant. She said yes my Dad was too.

Then the discussion about me taking vitamins instead of milk. Then he discussed other foods that I probably couldn't eat. I thought she'd be happy to find out it wasn't her cooking that made me sick.

But she weren't. I didn't drink much milk until I was pregnant the first time. I was craving it.

I started drinking a glass, but ended drinking it by the gallon. When my husband found me drinking it from the gallon jug in the wee hours; suggested I see the doctor. I told him I couldn't get enough milk.It was like being thirsty for water, but wanting milk.

I wasn't throwing it up and it didn't seem to be causing any other problems; digestive or gaseous; so drink milk. I also had a craving for pickled pigs feet. He figured if I could keep it down at least I was eating something.

I had morning sickness from hell. From waking till finally falling asleep I was sick for nine whole months. Milk, pickled pigs feet, and foot long cheese conies from Sonic were the only things I could eat and stay down.

My oldest son was born loving Sonic cheese conies. The morning after his delivery the milk with my breakfast made me throw up. Doc said your back to normal.

It's been that way since. The digestive issues got worse over the years until about 18 months ago when my now doctor put me on Aciphex for indigestion. Thanks to the little yellow pill I am eating foods I haven't eaten in years and enjoying them.

And any digestive issues are no longer an issue. I found all the answers to be quite helpful as most of the time doctors tell you what you have, but not what it is. I never knew lactose was sugar.

The doctors could never explain how I could drink milk directly from the cow, but not from a carton. My Grandmother had a Jersey milk cow. When we visited she gave us milk right from the cow.

Thought I was in seventh heaven. Didn't know milk could taste so good and not make me sick. Even learned to milk the old girl without getting kicked.

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