Lactose intolerance symptoms

All you need to know about lactose intolerance and its symptoms

Lactose intolerance symptoms are result of inability to digest the sugar in milk, lactose. This inability results from a shortage of the enzyme lactase, which is normally produced in the small intestine.

Lactose intolerance means your body doesn't produce enough lactase, which is used for digestion of lactose (the sugar in milk). Normally your digestion splits lactose in two parts glucose and galactose, then this simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream and then turned into energy. If your body doesn't produce enough of lactase enzyme to break lactose into two peaces, it seat undigested in the gut, causing lactose intolerance symptoms to appear.How severe symptoms are depends on that how much lactase one have, to help him digest lactose.
Lactase deficiency is very common in all nations. Asians are almost 100, American Indians 80, black 70 and American Caucasians only 20 percent lactase deficiency people. But Lactase deficiency is not the same as lactose intolerance. Some people with low or middle deficent of lactase often have no symptoms after taking milk products. Reduced amount of lactase means you have lactase deficency, when that causes symptoms you are also lactose intolerant.

 
Factors that influence your lactose intolerance:

• Your ethnic origin People from Asian, African, Native American origin are more likely to be lactose intolerant due to their lactase deficiency.

• People with digestive problems are more likely to be lactose intolerant.

• Taking medication, particiulary antibiotics can be another risk that your intestine will produce less lactase enzyme.

• The older you get the greater the risk of getting lactose intolerant is. Its natural process that in certain age body stop producing lactase enzyme.

Test of lactose intolerance is done by hydrogen breath test. It works by detecting hydrogen in your breath. Undigested lactose produce hydrogen which can be detected in your breath. Test starts by you blowing into the tube to get first sample, then you will be asked to eat something with lactose in it, and after a while blow into the tube again. Then the level of second sample is compared with first, and if there is difference, then you are lactose intolerant.

Every day life with lactose intolerance
Lactose intolerant people have to adapt their life and try to lower amount of milk product they consume. Best is to have a diet for few days, and then try to listen to your body to se how it reacts as you add some milk products. Everybody has different tolerance to amount of lactose body can digest. Due milk is good for bones as it is great source of calcium, you can get supplement for that. Children who are still growing have greater need of calcium need about 1,300 milligrams (mg) of calcium each day, so eating calcium supplement is vital. Most of people enjoy milk products very much, and fund very difficult to quit them. For them best solution is to take lactase supplement(tablets or liquid) which will replace low amount of lactase in their body, so they can enjoy milk products freely.
 

Some food ideas:

• There is on the market lactose reduced and lactose free milk which is grat alternative

• Taking lactase supplement is probably most common way

• When you drink milk, don't drink it alone, but in combination with some food, so it slows down digestion and so avoid problems.

• Add some broccoli, beans, tofu, or soy milk, to your daily meal as they are grat source of calcium.

• Yoghurt with active coltures is for some people great, try it and find out how it works for you.