Can you suddenly develop lactose intolerance?

[puds11]

I’ve had some quite cheesy meals recently (pasta, macaroni and pizza) and about 30 mins after each one developed horrible stomach cramps that have lasted the night. I have never had an issue with cheese before. Can you suddenly develop lactose intolerance? Is it symptomatic of something more sinister?

I developed this after hellish food poisoning. Horrendous wind and diaorreah. It went after a good dose of probios healed the leaky gut and lactase digest tabs from Holland and Barrett which I used to help me digest when I was out.

Yes I take calcium supplements, pots, but I'd rather get it naturally?

So if most of us got intolerance because of hellish food poisoning, what's to be done? Probiotics? Probiotics are not an easy journey for me, as essential as they are. They make me go a bit loony - so I take them now and again, when I need to, until I can stand no more. (People talk about Die Off but I don't think I've ever been able to die off totally, I can't stay the course.)

Puds, sorry

If cheese is a problem and you're not really reacting to milk then the problem could be cows milk protein intolerance. Hard cheeses contain very little lactose but a lot of protein, I think you'd get more lactose from milk than cheese.

@Utini I’m going to go to nothing and start gradually with things and see what is causing the problem. At present I’ve only noticed it after a lot of cheese, but it may have been there after milk, it just wasn’t as severe/ I didn’t attribute it to milk. Will see if milk triggers a reaction after a few weeks of nothing and if it doesn’t then it may be safe to assume it’s cmp.

Thank you for the info.

Pregnancy can does your immune system so things you could previously tolerate come to seen as foreign bodies, this is what one doctor told me when I consulted them on it. Interestingly I’m now perimenopausal and have in the last 6 months developed an intolerance to chlorine which results in severe rhinitis. It seems any major change in body’s hormone status can also affect the immune system

Would it happen 7 months after pregnancy though? I’ve started with oat milk and vegan alternatives. Things have definitely come on in that department since I was vegan 12 years ago which is nice! The chocolate is good!