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Anyone develop Lactose Intolerance latter in life?

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holden j caufield

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Not sure how this happened but now when I have ice cream or milk I stand about a 75% chance of having a some terrible stomach bloat right under my rib cage and it feels slightly hard and protrudes a bit. Feels like bad indigestion in the upper stomach.

Could be something else but is highly correlated to me eating ice cream most days.
 
I have a theory Lactose Intolerance is actually some sort of virus and contagious.
How it is contagious or transferred is unknown.
What type of virus, also unknown.
One day when the answers are discovered, Lactose Intolerance will be treatable and or curable.
 
How "late" in life are you? It's normal to develop lactose intolerance in early adulthood.
 
All humans lose their ability to digest dairy products after they are a few years old. Being lactose-intolerant at an adult age is normal.

Only Western-European people mutated (a few hunderd thousand years ago). They keep producing lactase for the full duration of their lives. Asians, Africans, etc, will become lactose-intolerent at the age of 5 or so.

So it depends on your race.

Dairy products are in everything. Lactose is a very cheap filler. And it is used as filler to produce many medicine-pills. It's used as filler in candy. It's used in dough (cookies, pizza, anything you can think of). If you are really lactose-intolerant, you should have problems with almost anything you eat. Well, over half of what you eat. In my country (The Netherlands), milk is seen as the most healthy thing ever. And we put dairy into almost everything. Also because it's so cheap. USA might do it a little less. But still, over half the products you eat might have lactose.

There are tests. If you are lactose-intolerant, your small intestines will not produce lactase (enzym that digests lactose), and thus not digest lactose. Lactose will go to your big intestines. Bacteria will digest the lactose. That will produce a lot of gas (Hydrogen). Which can be measured in your breath. Go to a doctor. Do the test. It's quick, it's cheap. Make sure you know exactly what your problem is. Because there is so much lactose in food, it will be very hard to emperically find out yourself.

I've had a parasite in my small intestines. My doctor totally underestimated that, and said my belly-aches were psychological. Some tests were done, but the parasite was not found. It fucked with me for 6 years, maybe longer. In the end, when I switched doctors and we finally found the parasite, it turned out I was totally lactose-intolerant. (And not taking in vitamine B12 and other nutricients. My gallbladder was fucked. (Making me always feel nauseous, probably because of the parasite too). A 5-day anti-biotics removed the parasite. But my intestines were still fucked. It took 4 years until my lactose-intolerance disappeared (the wall of my small intestines had repaired itself) and my B12-levels were back to normal.

So my advice:
Check to make sure lactose-intolerance is indeed the cause.
Get checked for parasites and bacteria.
If that is the reason for your lactose-intolerance, it can be reversed.
If you are not of Western-European origin, there might be nothing you can do.
Hope this helps.
 
holden j caufield said:
Not sure how this happened but now when I have ice cream or milk I stand about a 75% chance of having a some terrible stomach bloat right under my rib cage and it feels slightly hard and protrudes a bit. Feels like bad indigestion in the upper stomach.

Could be something else but is highly correlated to me eating ice cream most days.
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Been there, done that.
Pick up a box of lactaid or comparable lactose intolerance pill.
Chew tablet.
Enjoy Ice Cream\Pizza\Cheese
 
Gryz said:
All humans lose their ability to digest dairy products after they are a few years old. Being lactose-intolerant at an adult age is normal.

Only Western-European people mutated (a few hunderd thousand years ago). They keep producing lactase for the full duration of their lives. Asians, Africans, etc, will become lactose-intolerent at the age of 5 or so.
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This is not really true. Lactase production may begin to decrease then but most people aren't lactose intolerant at age 5.
 
I was opposite. When I drank milk in empty stomach as a kid, I'd always have bad cramps and stomache.

My mom told me the same thing too- apparently she had it same as I got her genes.

Then it went away as I became a teen. Now milk doesn't bother me at all.

Back then I didn't know what it was- later I learned it was lactose intolerance.
 
Eug said:
This is not really true. Lactase production may begin to decrease then but most people aren't lactose intolerant at age 5.
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Sure, you are probably right. But the general idea is: when kids are little, they need to drink breastmilk. So they will produce lactase. At age 5 and older, they don't drink breastmilk anymore, and nature/evolution lets people slowly lose the ability to produce lactase. (Except the mutants from Western Europe).

And of course it depends on the amount of lactose consumed. Small amounts will be digested by the bacteria in the large intestines. And the discomfort will be hardly noticed. But if you drink a liter of milshake, things become noticeable.

So at what age does lactose become a problem for Asians and Africans ? 10 ? 18 ? Completely random ?
 
sportage said:
I have a theory Lactose Intolerance is actually some sort of virus and contagious.
How it is contagious or transferred is unknown.
What type of virus, also unknown.
One day when the answers are discovered, Lactose Intolerance will be treatable and or curable.
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Lactase is the enzyme that breaks down lactose. A disaccharide of glucose and galactose bonded together. All animals make lactase as babies to break down milk. Lactase PERSISTENCE is the gene that enables adults to consume dairy. The tendency over time however is to express lower and lower levels of lactase anyway even if you have lactase persistence. Not everyone even has lactase persistence.

Lactaid/supplemental lactase is literally the only thing that is going to enable you to break down lactose. OTHERWISE the lactose gets broken down by bacteria instead and they overgrow and your immune system gets all pissed off about it etc. etc.

-ase = catalytic enzyme

-ose = sugar

The natural state is actually to be lactose intolerant as an adult like 99% of the other animals on the planet.
 
My wife lived on things like Pepcid for several years...until her doctor suggested that she had developed lactose intolerance...at age 50.

Sure enough...she cut out dairy products...the problems went away.

She tried the OTC lactaid-type meds...none worked very well for her...until about 2 years ago, I picked up a box of Kirkland brand lactose pills at Costco...she can now enjoy a bit of dairy from time to time...but she still has to be careful how much she has...or I suffer the ill effects.:colbert:
 
People who aren't white start really noticing the effects of lactose intolerance at around 22. Currently at 27, my tolerance for pizza is 2 slices. My tolerance for ice cream is half a pint. My tolerance for milk is zero. It will only get worse from here.
 
It happened to me a few years back. Just out of nowhere. If I even looked at some ice cream or a glass of milk I would be farting to the moon. It lasted for 2ish years and has gone away since.
 
Yes, sometime around age 30.
It's not exactly stomach bloating though. It'd be nice if that were the only effect. Instead, it's more like one of the most powerful laxatives in existence.



Raw milk though: Not a problem. (If it's collected cleanly, it's pretty safe.)
That stuff goes down as benignly as water.
Unfortunately the only farm around here that sells it requires a round trip that would cost me two gallons of gas.
What I gather is that there's some enzyme in the raw stuff that is destroyed by either the pasteurization or homogenization process used on commercially-available milk. With it left intact in the raw milk, it doesn't result in a digestive hellstorm.
 
Jeff7 said:
Yes, sometime around age 30.
It's not exactly stomach bloating though. It'd be nice if that were the only effect. Instead, it's more like one of the most powerful laxatives in existence.



Raw milk though: Not a problem. (If it's collected cleanly, it's pretty safe.)
That stuff goes down as benignly as water.
Unfortunately the only farm around here that sells it requires a round trip that would cost me two gallons of gas.
What I gather is that there's some enzyme in the raw stuff that is destroyed by either the pasteurization or homogenization process used on commercially-available milk. With it left intact in the raw milk, it doesn't result in a digestive hellstorm.
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No. That makes no sense. Raw milk has tons of lactose in it.
 
Yes, around 30 for me (I'm 35 now). But small amounts is ok.

I also find I get bloated and feel like crap if I eat too much bread. It will make me feel crap for the rest of the day. (I'm white though, of Scottish/English/Irish ancestry)
 
No, but I developed a taste for hot sauces... And my god, they burn when they go in and when they come back out.
 
I was under the impression that non-whites couldn't really tolerate lactose much past the toddler stage. And that whites can consume lactose their whole lives, but those who stop consuming it for a significant period of time can permanently lose the enzyme that digests it. I dated this Russian JAG chick that went full vegan for a year, then tried to change back and found herself lactose intolerant.
 
I think it's only whites with northern european ancestry (France, Germany, British Isles, Scandinavia) and even then it's only some. Southern europeans don't have the enzyme.
 
Nebor said:
I was under the impression that non-whites couldn't really tolerate lactose much past the toddler stage.
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That is not correct. The usual is to become lactose intolerant in adolescence or early adulthood.

Sure, it happens earlier for some and later for others, but remember you don't need to have 100% of the lactase function that someone else might have to be tolerant of lactose.

And that whites can consume lactose their whole lives
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Some Caucasians, not all.

but those who stop consuming it for a significant period of time can permanently lose the enzyme that digests it. I dated this Russian JAG chick that went full vegan for a year, then tried to change back and found herself lactose intolerant.
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How old was she? Maybe she was going to become lactose intolerant anyway.

Also, how did she reintroduce dairy? Did she gradually increase the lactose intake, starting with one small piece of cheese in a day, or did she go from being straight vegan to eating pepperoni and 4-cheese pizza, washed down with a chocolate milkshake?
 
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