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?

I had no idea how common it was.

Thanks for the info, I'm a bit gutted just because it's a pain in the arse.

But at least I've figured out what's been ruining the weekends!

I can’t do milk. On a bad day 2 cuppas will give me gutache. I’m not too bad with cheese. Yoghurts are hell on earth some days.

I’m pretty good with cheese. More than a little splash in my tea and I’m doubled over! The cheese on dominos is probably so processed it’s barely even dairy any more. And the more mature a ‘real’ cheese is, the less lactose remains.

More than a little splash of milk in my tea, that should read!

Totally possibly. Dd is like this. A cup of milk and she's in agony. A pizza, no issues.

Is there a test that can confirm it?

Lactose reduces the amount milk is processed.

So pure milk high lactose
Yogurt and soft cheese mediuM
Hard cheeses barely any or none etc.

^^ rough calculation.

But yes worth doing the test rather than self diagnosing or you could cut out an important (and let’s face it CHEESE) for no reason when it could be something else.

Yes there is a test, go to your GP.

Thanks, I will do.

I'm lactose intolerant but I can eat cheese but not drink milk.

I’m not in the UK but the test involved me drinking a high lactose liquid and then getting my blood sugars measured every 30 mins for 2 hours & my symptoms. In normal people they should spike as the lactose is split into glucose and something else but in lactose intolerance they don’t spike. The GP said that the test is actually only positive in 5% of people that see him. I’m glad I got a proper diagnosis cause people can be quite sniffy as if you’re trying to follow a trend and soon shut up when you say it’s an actual diagnosis

I did the same test as @ComeOnGordon but I did it at home. (son is diabetic so we have a glucose monitor) my sugar levels actually went down instead of up.

I was dairy free for over a year while breastfeeding. Now I can’t tolerate milk or yoghurt/cream but am fine with hard cheeses or mozzarella. I just stick to oat or almond milk in my tea!

A bad stomach bug can also cause lactose intolerance. DS2 gets temporary lactose intolerance after D&V. For some people it’s permanent.

Fresh cheeses like uncooked mozzarella have dire effects but hard cheeses are ok. I don’t drink milk at all as it gives me heartburn followed by cramps. Butter is no problem.

I've been suffering with heartburn for ages, they just assumed it was a hiatus hernia after my masters pregnancy but now I wondering whether it's this.

My joints hurt a lot and I thought it might be lack of calcium so I've been downing pints of full fat milk (then spending hours in bed in agony) and I've just read that lactose intolerance can cause joint pain. How true is the latter?

YABU - as someone with first hand experience I know what I'm on about lol
I could eat several big slices of cheesy pizza but not even a couple of mouthfuls of a cup of milk without being really ill.

My DD has been lactose intolerant since she was 10. She eats very little dairy now but still craves a baked cheesecake every now and again. I can highly recommend Lactojoy tablets for those of you that want to eat dairy occasionally. DD has found them useful when she's round at friends houses and doesn't want to cause a fuss /panic by telling anyone she's lactose intolerant.

The bacteria that create the cheese effectively eat most of the lactose in the milk that made the cheese, so it is quite low in lactose. Same for yoghurts. When you stop eating dairy for an extended period of time your body can stop making lactase, the enzyme that digests lactose, thus making you lactose intolerant. Depending on how sensitive you are you could easily be able to eat cheese but not drink milk. People who have aberrant inflammatory responses seem to be more predisposed to developing others, so your sore joints could be linked.

Im the same! I seem fine with some cheeses (but not Cheshire cheese or soft cheeses like that) but cream, whole milk, high quality ice cream I am reallyyyy bad with. I can have skimmed milk ok and I seem fine with pizza.

Seems that the more sugar a dairy product has in the worse it makes me

My son got the most awful nappy rash from drinking milk as a young toddler. Formula milk was fine, dairy products like cheese and yoghurt were fine too. In fact he was a cheese monster. Bloody loved it. But as soon as he drank milk whether from a cup or in cereal his bottom would be covered in bleeding blisters in less than 2 hours no matter how fast you changed his nappy after he got the inevitable runs. It was the oddest thing.

He grew out of it eventually too.

@Brenna24 you sound knowledgeable, are you a HCP?

No, biologist.

I can eat cheese but I have to have lactose free milk. But if I eat too much cheese in one week I have to have a few days off as I know about it.

I haven’t been formally tested as I know the only definitive test involves an endoscopy (I work in theatres so seen them done, they are a bit like a pregnancy test with a biopsy of small bowel tissue). The other tests aren’t accurate but they will only do the endoscopic lactose test if they are testing for other causes of problems such as h pylori/gastritis/ulcers and not just solely for diagnosing lactose intolerance as it’s an expensive and invasive way of testing when symptoms and diaries match up (that is from speaking to upper gi surgeons I work with).

So I just manage my symptoms myself and don’t worry the NHS about it. It can’t be treated anyway so it doesn’t make any difference to me tbh.

My son is milk protein intolerant, so can eat hard cheeses, as the protein is processed out of them.

Some pizzas he’s fine with, other pizzas with morazella on is not so good.

I was never intolerant to lactose until the last year or so (I'm 47). I can eat most cheese without a problem, but no milk, cream or ice cream. Yoghurt bothers me as well, but not as badly.
So, pizza doesn't sound that unusual, actually!