Disclaimer: I have not been tested for lactose intolerance; however, I do know that dairy messes with me and lactaid pills help so I’m assuming I have it.
I understand humans aren’t meant to drink milk forever, so I’m more curious about what happens after someone has dairy. For example, when I drink milk, the first thing I notice is that my stomach feels extremely full. Not quite gas bloating or carbonation from sodas, but just full. And there’s a pressure that makes it feel like my body is trying to compress it or push it back up. Then, later, I’ll get a lot of gas rumbling around in my stomach. Eventually it messes with bowel movements and is done.
Now, I don’t know if this is the same process for all lactose intolerant people, but what’s happening here? What creates that almost bloated feeling even though you’re not ingesting air/carbonation/etc? I’m assuming what comes after is all due to the gas I hear rumbling around, so what happens in the stomach that makes the gas and all of that happen?
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So someone who is LI either produces not enough lactase or none. This means that they’re not able to properly break down the sugars themselves in milk.
So what happens is that the gut bacteria break it down and when they do that they produce a fuckload of gas. This gas makes you feel bloated but it also interferes with your intestine’s ability to reabsorb water and so you get diarrhoea.
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