Jacques Laurin wrote:

>No, I was thinking of tolerance as a breach of immunological surveillance.
The body gives
>up defending itself, and from then on, the foreign protein can infiltrate
through and
>through without being prevented by anything. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
intolerances to
>cow's milk are not due to lactose, it not being an antigen, but rather to
cow's dairy
>proteins.

Lactose intolerance is a misnomer. More correctly it is lactose
maldigestion. I agree with Jacques above.

Don.