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Hello, friends,
I'm sorry to be so slow responding. A few people answered my query 
about lactose intolerance and goats milk. I'd heard conflicting stories 
about it. Some folks who hear I'm lactose intolerant  suggest goats 
milk or cheese. I'm not fond of goat cheese, but I keep hearing that it 
IS okay, and that it's NOT. So I wanted to sort that out. Here's what 
our fellow listies had to say:


***This simple informative answer came from Angela in Tulsa, who wrote:

"According to Milk is not for Every Body: Living With Lactose 
Intolerance by Steve Carper, goat's milk contains 4.40% lactose. (Cow's 
milk is approx. 4.65% lactose.) I assume that this means that any 
cheese made from this milk contains lactose, as does any cheese made 
from cow's milk. The older the cheese (as in an aged cheese), the less 
lactose.
 
According to Steve Carper's website: 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper/percent.htm
Feta cheese (a goat cheese) is about 4.1% lactose."


***Bev in Milwaukee went to the www.askjeeves.com website, typed in  
(Does goats milk contain lactose?) and found an interesting article 
about goats milk:

Goat's Milk: A Natural Alternative for Milk Sensitive Patients

Goat milk is much higher than cow's milk in calcium, vitamin B-6, 
vitamin A, potassium and niacin.

The advertisement asks, "Got milk?" But what kind of milk?
Twenty years ago, most people who routinely had milk with their morning 
cereal used whole milk. Today, with the concern for fat in the diet, 
many people have switched to low-fat milk or skim milk. And a 
significant number of people are opting for lactose reduced or lactose 
free milk. There are other alternatives: take goat's milk, for example. 
Patients with diarrhea, asthma, bloating and irritability may be 
suffering from the most common food allergy: cow's milk. Goat's milk is 
a natural alternative to cow milk and can comfortably be consumed by 
many patients who suffer from cow milk allergies or sensitivity.

Although goat milk, like cow's milk and human milk, contains lactose, 
many people with lactose intolerance can drink goat milk.

Why? It has been hypothesized that. . .

(it's long....I'll let you go there to read all of it.)



Okay, so goats milk does  have lactose, and plenty of it, but it might 
work for some folks. My reading told me that the digestion of lactose 
is aided by a substance produced in the tips of the villi. That would 
be the last part to regenerate.   I was warned recently by a dietician 
on the list that if we have regeneration and no other problem with 
dairy, we need to reintroduce milk products verrrrrrrrrrrrrry slowly!!! 
What I've done in the past is get excited about not getting sick after 
a small amount of dairy and then just have too darn much of it, too 
frequently. Not huge amounts, but more than my body was ready for. 
Apparently the slow reintroduction allows the body to start producing 
what it needs to digest lactose.

I hope this information is helpful to some of you!

deb, in Port Townsend, Washington

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