Lactose Intolerance
A wide spread cause for digestive problems
By Christiane Pies, MSc
(Translated from German by Ute Marie Allison)
A case
Jane M. has been suffering from recurring digestion problems for years.
Repeatedly she gets diarrhoea, sometimes accompanied by vertigo or nausea.
Then she has periods when she feels fine again, but all of a sudden her problems can reoccur.
Her diarrhoea attacks restrict her in her daily activities and she feels worse each year.
After many years she hears about the phenomenon of milk intolerance and simply leaves out all dairy products. This improves her symptoms to a certain degree.
Now she develops a profound interest in the subject and realises that lactose, the carbohydrate in milk, is not only contained in dairy but also in a lot of convenience food and even some medication. After that she also eliminates these products from her diet and her symptoms disappear completely.