Lactose Intolerant...

[Nikki69]

Hi,

I'm newly diagnosed with Coeliac. I've been really careful to be gluten free but I've been really sick and in pain since yesterday evening. All I can trace it to is the cottage cheese and milk as the only other things I ate was plain chicken salad!!

I've read you can be lactose intolerant at the beginning. If that is the case, and the thought really does my head in, how long do you have to give it up for? I was hoping I wasn't as really struggling with the gluten-free

Thanks for your help.

Nikki

[Storm]

I am exactly the same. I cooked a meal yesterday, chicken in olive oil, mushrooms and cheese / potato slices ( that say they are gluten free ). I was SO careful not to gluten myself and I am 99.9% sure I didn't, however, I was really ill last night.

I spoke with my girlfriend and we also thought that I could be lactose intolerant. I am so sick of this and I would like to ask the same question as Nikki...could it be lactose as I am so early diagnosed??

Thank you

[Gobbie]

Lactose Intolerant.

*Milk, yogurt and cream.

Well, I have been with this sensitivity for many years now and it is easier than gluten!

There are many LACTOSE FREE products available on the market.

I live in the UK and there is a LACTO TREE milk -semi skim & whole available.

It is found in most of supermarket's shelves and they are trust worthy.

On TV ads and everything.

I have replaced ordinary milk to this few years ago and it is SAFE!

My body is sensitive to almost everything so I am a good guinea pig when testing these things.

It tastes nice and has never triggered any symptoms!

This company also does LACTO FREE YOGURT and CREAM.

Open Original Shared Link - their branding is strong so easily spotted!

*Cheese or Sheese.

Alternative cheese that are lactose free!

I have not tried them out myself yet but they are available on Alternative food stores.

There are different types of them as well, mozzarella, cheddar, etc.

As far as I am concerned, lactose intolerant is fightable.

Make sure it is not the ALLERGY that you have.. it is only the INTOLERANCE you can cope with.

I am intolerant to it so about 7 years ago, I drank a glass or more of ordinary semi skimmed milk everyday to beat it off as I heard if you include it in your diet reguarly it does go away *though you have to maintain this.

So I did exactly that for about a month or so, ofcourse initially the symptoms showed-indigestion, cramps, and other digestive problems but I was determined. After a month or so, drinking milk became problem free although highly concentrated cheese or cream did trouble my stomach a little but never the less, better than before. Although it was hard to maintain regular intake of milk. Because of the busy life style and so on, I was off milk for few days ... and the symptoms started to return in milder form. Then after a week, drinking milk cause bad symptoms AGAIN.

Yea, so it is do-able but you have got to stick to it is my conclusion.

I am not a milk person anyway so I drink lacto free or soya light milk instead.

Oh, and flavoured soy milk usually taste lovely too and they are not heavy as cow's milk.

There is Rice milk also, if you want to try.

Hope this helps!

[GFinDC]

You can get Lactaid brand pills here in the US to take. They are gluten-free pills that contain the lactase enzyme to digest lactose sugar. One thing to watch out for is that some store brands etc contain wheat, so do check the ingredients.

I have been mostly dairy free for 12 years now, although once in a while I get stupider then usual and try a little of the stuff. It never works out well for me. I can deal with the lactose sugar better now as long as I take some lactaid, but if I eat dairy I can't get to sleep, it''s like being on super go juice. Takes me 3 days to get past that, and get back to a somewhat normal sleep pattern. I do take calcium pills every day due to the reduced amount of calcium I get in my diet. So my thing is both a lactose and casein problem, which not everybody has of course. DPP-IV is supposed to help with casein, but I haven't noticed any improvement with it.

If'n I was to guess though, I'd say your ability to eat lactose might improve after 6 months to a year, depending on your ability to follow the gluten-free diet consistently. That's just a guess though.

[ang1e0251]

Like gluten symptoms vary from person to person, so do lactose symptoms. I cannot have anything close to fresh; milk, cottage cheese, yogurt or sour cream. I can still tolerate butter, aged cheese. My daughter's symptoms are different from mine but she can use the Lactaid supplement and have a little ice cream. Not me, it just doesn't work for me.

So you both may have mixed results. The Lactaid supplement may work for you but maybe not. I'm not one of them but many have been able to avoid fresh dairy for a few months then add it back in after their body heals.

I would say avoid fresh dairy for awhile, you can substitute soy or almond milk. In a few months, try a little and see how you feel.

[mushroom]

You do have to distinguish between lactose and casein intolerance. Since the villi in the small intestine are damaged by gluten, and the tips of the villi produce the lactase that digests the lactose, most people with intestinal damage are intolerant to lactose until the intestine heals. The amount of time this takes depends on the amount of damage. Many people who are only lactose intolerant can eat yogurt, cheese (I can do butter and sour cream too) but have to avoid as a previous poster said, milk, cream, ice cream. If you are casein intolerant you can't handle anything with dairy of any kind and it is probably something that will stay with you unfortunately. It is easy to test which you are and which products bother you.