Is it possible to be lactose intolerant with this?!

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Being able to eat a massive dominoes pizza but floored by a cup of tea with milk in?

Surely not?

Yes it’s possible. Depends upon the level of intolerance. It’s possible to be able to have milk in tea but not on cereal.

Milk is high lactose and mozzarella is low, so yes, definitely possible

Good lord.

Well, I can stop ruining our weekends by downing milk and spending all day in bed then!

I thought it couldn't possibly be lactose intolerance because I can eat dominos pizza!

It is absolutely possible, my daughter is exactly the same!
The GP gave her a copy of the milk ladder which shows different levels of intolerance and you work out on the ladder just how sensitive you are, it might be worth looking at?

I describe myself as having a low tolerance to dairy. I can manage high fat, lower lactose forms like cheese and some yogurts, and highly processed forms like tinned custard. Milk itself will have me occupying the nearest toilet for a very unpleasant half hour before the cramping and output eases off.

I realised the issue as my CMPA son was weaned back on to dairy and my IBS symptoms worsened after a good phase while he was on an exclusion diet that automatically reduced my consumption.

The cheese on a Domino's is probably not cheese.

The cheese on a Domino's is probably not cheese.

^ This. It will probably be cheap, mozzarella-ish cheese-ish substance that maybe once glanced briefly at some milk!

The cheese on a Domino's is probably not cheese.
Eh?

I'm very familiar with the milk ladder but that's the breakdown of the protein in milk rather than the lactose?

Or can it count for both?

I guess it does! I will dig ours out, thanks.

Cheese is lower lactose, I think most hard dairy items are lower lactose.

I can cope fairly well till we hit cream and then I fall off a cliff.. but I’ll never need a strong laxative as long as they stock it in supermarkets.

Obviously the common sense thing is to not eat whatever upsets you... but it’s always something nice. (Macaroni, puddings, icecream etc)

DD has to use Lacto-Free milk, and also various dairy free/plant based yogurts and Ice Cream, we have a list of which are edible or not !!
She can however happily eat morzarella in quantity and cooked grated cheese on veg or in macaroni for example. Parmesan is also fine.

Oh, yes, and cream a big no, no, and the lacto free is disgusting sadly.

Anyone know why it comes on all of a sudden??

I was dairy free for a few years while i breast fed my really allergic baby/toddler, then a few more years just because dairy stuff wasn't in the house and it saved buying double stuff.
Could that break caused my body to dislike it when I introduced it back in?

I can eat pizza and eat some form of cheese every day, fine with yogurt and even up to 3 cups of tea a day. (may have a less solid poo but nothing that affects my general day)

A glass of milk, creamy soup, bowl of cereal and I am written off for the whole day and sometimes the next day too.

Birthday cake is terrible for me too and I have never figured out why. Buttercream I assume.

I am sure I read somewhere that you can run out of lactalese or something like that in your gut as you get older.

I can manage up to about 1/2 pint of milk a day. Then I get runs really bad. So I mainly have oat milk and save my daily allowance for odd days out when milks hard to get or some cheese/chocolate.

Having a break from Dairy certainly can cause lactose intolerance. That's how mine occurred along with having back to back antibiotics for 3 months.

I can just about manage a cuppa with a dash of milk in it or a small portion of a hard cheese, without dashing to the nearest loo. Although some days all I need to do is walk down the dairy aisle in the supermarket and I feel rotten all day.

I use Lactofree milk and cheese and normally have soya yogurt

Lactofree cream is lovely! Not disgusting at all.

I used to be Ok with cheese, even when I was going through a very lactose intolerant phase. (Unfortunately, I have other issues with hard cheese, now, which is bleeding annoying) Young cheeses like mozzarella and feta are higher in lactose than cheddar and parmesan, but still contain a lot less than actual milk.

It’s actually fairly normal to be lactose intolerant - humans weren’t designed to be able to digest lactose later in life. Mine also developed later in life.

Most hard cheese is lactose free due to the process of being made - milk is made up of curds and whey and the cheese comes from the curds which is very low in lactose and milk is made from the whey which is high in lactose.

It’s actually one of the easier things to be intolerant too - you can buy lactase tablets to take to allow you to eat lactose

Agree with the pp - other softer cheeses have lactose in them. It’s just the very hard cheeses like cheddar that are lactose free

Could that break caused my body to dislike it when I introduced it back in?

Yup. You stop producing the enzyme, I believe.

Lactose can come and go though out your life. My mom has been all of her life. I was when born but grew out of it up untill I had an op and then I had to change diet rapidly my son was OK when born but could not tolorate dairy if he was ill and then all of a sudden at age 5 he was just vomiting eveywhere and realised because he became in tolarant alltogether and docs said u can grow out of it and it can come back aswell or it can stay for life all depends on the person

And yes cheese is definitely difrent to milk and difrent types of cheese ate difrent aswell u might be OK with one cheese but not another it all very complicated good luck

There's something about cooking milk which breaks down the lactose too. My DD is the same. Can't do pure milk but in other forms it's fine.

I can't have milk, cream, ice cream etc but I can eat low lactose cheese without too much of an issue