Lactose intolerance and protein shake dairy ingredients

If you realize you have developed a lactose intolerance, does that also include avoiding protein shakes that have dairy products in their ingredients? Or is that a small enough amount that it wouldn't matter. 

You can do either of the two. You can take lactaid pills or use a lactose free shake.

It would depend on how sensitive you are to lactose.

At six months I tried a shake with regular milk again and know that I still must drink lactose free milk. The protein powder itself doesn't bother me, nor does yogurt or cheese - just milk.

I guess the only way to tell is to try it and see what happens.

Good luck!

Depends... your sensitivity, perhaps amount of whey/milk solids which will vary from brand to brand too.

I can't drink liquid cow's milk (pain, cramps, overall puny feeling) but cheeses, yogurt, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, are fine.

I do soy milk or soy/water combo in shakes and use mostly whey isolate proteins. No issues.

Probably so.  Whey gives me terrible gas.  I keep egg-white protein instead.

If you stick with the whey protein ISOLATE powders, you should be fine. They contain a much smaller amount of lactose than the whey protein concentrates, and they provide a higher quality protein as well. Unjury and Syntrax Nectar are the two brands my nutritionist recommends.

I do have an intolerance to whey protein, the staple (and a dairy product) in many protein drinks.  Egg white protein drinks work just fine for me though.