Lactase the Lactose Sorterouter (Dairy Intolerance)

Member Name: windwhisperer

Product:	Dairy Intolerance
Date:	20/12/08 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: Allows suffers to drink milk with no side effects

Disadvantages: Usually have to wait for delivery. Needs time to convert the lactose. Milk tastes sweeter.

No doubt about it, I was always 'Queen of Dairy Products.' Milk was a main food, cheese came a close second and I lathered everything in butter!
But about ten years ago I started suffering symptoms that I didn't, at first, associate with Lactose intolence.

Grumbling tum, getting 'the runs,' at first. Then I started with severe stomach cramps. My GP at first diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but I had doubts.
Over the next couple of years things got worse, the stomach cramps literally had me screaming in agony and the only thing that would relieve it was ibuprofen.
The GP was still insistent on IBS and was no help at all.
Everything escalated and I hit the internet trying to find out the source - many sites suggested that maybe I didn't have Lactose intolerance, their symptoms actually appeared less severe than mine, but there is a big difference between intolerance and allergy - always something to remember!

Then I started losing weight - it seemed the more I ate, the more I lost, which absolutely convinced me that I did have a food intolerance and I hit the net once more.

This time I found a wonderful site, in the US I think, that had the vital words, Lactose intolerance is not always diagnosed until the patient is suffering malnutrition - yeah!

It also recommended Lactase. From what I can gather, and please do not take my words as law - but the body carries it's own lactose, if you digest a lot of products that contain lactose (and many more products do now than used to) then the body cannot convert it (with lactase) to a sugar you can absorb.

Anyhow, I searched out Lactase and bought the enzyme, which usually comes in 15ml bottles. You put the recommended number of drops in milk and 'voila' it sorts out the excess lactose.

I used this product for probably eight years, until about a year ago when I bought my own goat and now have fresh milk that hasn't been processed - but the Lactase was really vital to me. My weight loss stopped immediately I started using it (and I had lost about a stone and a half - which is a lot for a 9 stone frame) and after a month or so started gaining.

Up to a year ago the product could be found, with postage costs for about £10 or £11 a bottle and this used to last me a month or so.
Well worth it in my opinion!

Oh, just added a note: Lactase can make milk taste slightly sweeter, so it may not appeal to everybody.

Summary: A great little lifesaver if you are a milk drinker