Headaches and Lactose Intolerance versus Milk Intolerance


As many people are already aware, lactose is a sugar found in bovine milk and other dairy products.  Lactose intolerance is when the small intestine either does not make enough or any at all of the enzyme lactose (aka - lactase), which the body requires in order to properly digest lactose.

Food intolerance on the other hand, is when elevated levels of certain antibodies, such as Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and/or Immunoglobulin A (IgA), attaches to (or "attacks") partially undigested food proteins circulating in the body's blood stream.

With these two definitions in mind, one can see where lactose intolerance and food intolerance are two different conditions of the human body... 

Yet, when it comes to migraine headaches (including cluster headaches) both lactose intolerance AND food intolerance can either directly cause and/or complicate these ill-health conditions.

I. Lactose Intolerance & Migraine Headaches:

Medical citations, such as a paper from the Rush University Medical Center, report that lactose intolerance can lead to migraines.  Commonly referred to as “dietary migraines”, scientific evidence exists for an association between these “dietary migraines” and lactose intolerance.*

* "Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Food and Food Additives", 2003.


II. Food Intolerance & Migraine Headaches:

ANY food can be the culprit behind migraines and cluster headaches.  Two of the most common foods behind these type of headaches include dairy (bovine) products and gluten-containing grains such as wheat, oat, barley, rye, triticale, spelt, kamut, and a couple others.*

* “Migraine; A Diagnostic Test for Etiology of Food Sensitivity by a Nutritionally Supported Fast and Confirmed by Long Term Report”, Annals of Allergy.

With all the above information taken into consideration, a person's headaches (including migraines and clusters) may likely be caused by...

1). Lactose intolerance if one has been diagnosed with such.

2). IgG and/or IgA food intolerance towards bovine whole milk and/or its individual proteins; or any other food.

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