> Does anybody have any ideas in response to Helena's
> posting from a few days ago about coffee as a possible
> laxative?  I'm having an unexplained recurrence of my
> chronic diarrhea and I'm wondering if it may be related
> to coffee.

Might be.

>
> Ever since I began avoiding lactose, I've noticed that
> sometimes my stomach starts to rumble after drinking
> coffee.  I've even wondered if maybe I was developing
> an allergy to casein which is an ingredient in the
> non-dairy creamer that I use.  However, this has been
> an extremely minor problem.  I hadn't noticed whether
> it happens when I have coffee with Lactaid milk.
>

The caffeine in coffee is an irritant to the digestive system. I had to
give up on it years ago. I always figured that it was a result of
lactose ravaging my digestive system before I discovered that I was
lactose intolerant.

Dennis.