D Jacobs wrote:
> I may need to soon begin taking a medicine that contains lactose.
Would this be a problem for my son since it is dairy?
Or maybe not because breast milk already has lactose?
Also, if I've become LI since being off milk, will I be able to handle the
medicine myself? Will the lactase tablets be enough to allow me to
tolerate it?<
If your son can tolerate your breast milk, he should be able
to tolerate anything you eat containing lactose. Lactose does
not travel to breast milk in any case; it's only the milk proteins
(which are not found in pills) that you have to worry about.
And the amount of lactose in any given pill is so small that only a tiny
few
exceptionally sensitive people ever react. However, a lactase
tablet will help even those.
Steve Carper