lactose intolerance and raw milk

poet_kelly
on 1/26/12 2:37 am - OH

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone with lactose intolerance is interested. Before I started buying raw milk, when I was researching it, I read that people with lactose intolerance can often tolerate raw milk even though they cannot tolerate pasteurized milk. Apparently there is an enzyme in milk that is supposed to help us digest lactose, but pasteurizing milk destroys that enzyme.

I myself am not lactose intolerant but I think my partner is, at least mildly. Milk has always given him the most awful gas you can imagine. I could tell in the evening if he'd had cereal for breakfast by the smell. It was seriously bad enough I did not want to sit in the same room as him. Well, since I've been buying raw milk, he farts much less and, you know, farts don't smell like roses, but his no longer send me running for a gas mask.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

artroxy blue
on 1/26/12 5:19 am - MA

RNY on 08/14/12

Goat's milk is another alternative, too. My husband is a farting machine with regular pasteurized milk, but no issues with goat's milk. It's on the pricy side, but it's nice for once in a while.

Oxford Comma Hag
on 1/26/12 5:47 am

RNY on 09/12/11

That is good info to have. Thanks.

How is your raw milk adventure going since you bought a share in a cow?(saying you bought part of a cow sounds like a bad joke)

poet_kelly
on 1/26/12 5:52 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Hee hee. I bought a share in a whole herd of cows. And it's going well. I love the milk. I'm starting to make my own stuff now, like yogurt and butter.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

Oxford Comma Hag
on 1/26/12 7:55 am

RNY on 09/12/11

That sounds great, Kelly. I am thinking of doing the same thing. I seem to have developed a lactose intolerance. Maybe I always had it and just never put 2+2 together.

How cool it must be to make your own stuff.

poet_kelly
on 1/26/12 8:04 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

It is pretty cool. I plan to try cottage cheese sometime soon. Which I don't even like very much. But my partner does. But I just think it's cool to be able to make that stuff. I never used to think very much about where my food came from, so this is a big adventure to me.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

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