Why do medications say to be taken with food or milk? What can milk do as a liquid to substitute for solid food?
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Most of these replies are wrong. Milk is considered a solid food in your stomach because milk proteins essentially solidify on contact with stomach acid. Just look at infant puke, even if they only have milk (even breast milk) it comes up looking like watery cottage cheese.
This is why, for example, when you are going to have general anesthesia you can have clear liquids 6 hours before surgery but solids (and milk) 12 hours before surgery. This is also why the “milk challenge” where you have to drink a gallon of milk all at once is so difficult whereas drinking a gallon of water is not (still ill advisable, though).
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