Lactose intolerance
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- Created on: 03-12-12 10:17
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- Lactose intolerance
- Lactose - sugar found in milk, hydrolysed by lactase. babies mostly eat milk - lots of lactase. Less milk in adaults - less lactase produced. Some people produce very little or no lactase
- Some people do not produce enough lastoase to digest all the lactose consumed
- undigested lactose reaches intstine where microoragnisms break it down producing gases
- some people with this disease cannot consume any lactase, whsilt others can drink a little
- Not life-threatening in adults - foods rich in calcium to replcae calcium in milk or adding enzymes to milk to digest lactose.
- Young babies - condition rare but more serious, babies need to be fed special non-milk foods that are rich in calcium and vitamin D.
- Lactose - sugar found in milk, hydrolysed by lactase. babies mostly eat milk - lots of lactase. Less milk in adaults - less lactase produced. Some people produce very little or no lactase
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