This is a little gross, but this is a health forum, so here goes: Dairy products give me diarrhea. Like, really easily. I always assumed that I just got diarrhea really easily, but now that I think about it, nothing else really gives me diarrhea. I get it especially bad when I eat ice cream, but I also get it if I drink a lot of milk, have a lot of butter, or eat eggs (I know there isn’t any milk in eggs, but they are dairy). Cheese to a lesser extent, for some reason, although I do have to be careful with pizza. My mom says she has the same problems, and thinks we might be lactose intolerant. I don’t know, though. If I were lactose intolerant, wouldn’t I get sicker than that after drinking milk?
do you get any of these symptomes after eating yoghurt?? you might be lacking the lactose enzyme in the small intestine, in that case you are lactose intolerant...if you don't have these symptoms after eating yoghurt, it means you really are, because yoghurt contains a bacterian lactose enzyme, which means it's the only lactate product that you can digest..
there is a difference between being lactose intolerant and having an allergy or sensitivity to cow milk. Eggs contain no lactose and are not dairy, but are highly allergenic to sensitive people. If you are allergic to dairy, you will have a bad reaction to anything containing milk, whey, or casein of any sort, even stuff labeled "non-dairy" contains milk protein. Allergies can be very mild, or life-threatening, or anything in between. Most people who are allergic to milk also get stuffy nose and/or dry itchy skin from eating too much of it. Many people can tolerate it in small quantities, but have bad problems if they eat too much dairy foods. Regardless of the extent of your reaction, eating things you are allergic to is harmful to your immune system. If you are lactose intolerant, all you need is to take certain enzymes to help you digest dairy products (sorry, can't think of what the specific ones are right now). try www.enzymestuff.com for more info on food enzymes than anyone ever needs to know.
Eggs are not dairy. Dairy comes out of a Bovine animal, like a cow or a goat. Eggs come from chickens (or ducks) which are birds and not at all related. Eggs are not dairy, and contain no lactose, whey or casien proteins. (But they contian other proteins, especially in the whites, that many people are allergic to. But, this has nothing to do with milk and milk products.) I am terribly lactose intolerant, as well as slighlty dairy allergic to whey protein. I cannot have even small amounts of cheese, milk, cream, sour cream, yogurt, keffir ect. When someone is dairy intolerant as well as allergic, yogurt is NO better than regular milk. A LITTLE of the lactose is digested, but not the majority of it. I can't touch yogurt with a 10 ft pole. I beleive less than 25% of the lactose is digested in yogurt, and that leaves 75% to make us sick. If it is one of the proteins and is an allergy, then yogurt will make you SICKER than milk, as the protiens are concentrated. (As they are in skim milk (less fat = more proteins and lactose) some cheese. As I have said in 100 other posts, there is nothing magical about yogurt. It is just milk with some bacteria in it. And you are better off getting that bacteria in supplement form, anyway. You can get more good bacteria from supplements, it is more intact, and it won't make you sick. (As long as it is from a nondairy source.) As I am so sensitive to this stuff, I carry lactaid everywhere I go, and if I am eating in a resturant or at someone's house, I pop a few before I eat and after. It is amazing that people will feed you things LOADED with dairy, even if they know you are intolerant. I cannot eat any visible amounts of dairy even with the Lactaid, but it helps if there was a little lactose in the salad dressing (and I usually ONLY get vinegar and oil) or a smidge of cheese in the sauce. We went to Olive Garden with my sister and her dh and son a few weeks ago, and they SWORE there was no dairy in my dish (there were about 2 things on that freaking menu that didn't contain dairy, nothing to choose from) and I ate some salad, my dish (supposedly some chicken, pasta in a NONdairy sauce) and bread and took my Lactaid, and I got sick anyway. Appears that there was small amounts of parmesan in the salad, and probably milk in the sauce of my dish. Oddly, I can eat butter. There is basiclly NO lactose in butter, and no whey protein (the one I am allergic to) and, after totally eliminating dairy for about a year, I could reintroduce butter, with no problems. There IS casien protien in butter, so if you are allergic to this protein (I am not) then butter will bother you. Otherwise butter is just fat.
