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