When Lactaid first hit the market (and invariably invented the condition of lactose intolerance, which somehow infected me one day when I woke up and was 30), they had their nice little white chewable pills, and they had drops that you could add to regular old milk (non-fat, 1%, 2% or whole, didn’t matter) that would eat up that nasty lactose and you could use the milk. Best part was, it did not change the taste one iota, whereas some of the milk they were selling that was lactose-free was rather, well, watered-down (at least in my opinion).
Those drops were wondrous things… and then, of course, as things are wont to happen, they stopped making them. :mad:
So, I’m back to buying pre-made lactose-free milk (although I managed to find two brands that get it about right, and the milk tastes exactly the same as regular milk).
However, there are times when I am forced to use lactose-full milk (when lactose-free isn’t available), so I take one of the little white pills with it, et voila - no intestinal problems. And that got me to thinking (as I sometimes do):
Would dissolving Lactaid tablets in whole milk be effective in making it lactose-free?
I leave it to the knowledgeable Teeming Millions to enlighten me.
I suppose you could, but it might taste a little off. The lactase in the pill converts the lactose into something else, so pill-mixed milk would not be as sweet. If you swallow the pill, you get to taste the milk sugar, and the conversion happens in your stomach.
Goat’s milk has a percentage but not all its proteins in common with cow’s milk. Therefore “some” people who are allergic to cow’s milk protein can have goat’s milk.
Two caveats. One, I don’t think anyone knows how many “some” is. I believe it is a minority, but I don’t have hard numbers.
Two, if you are allergic to cow’s milk and want to try it - be very careful! Take a small sip of goat’s milk to see what effect it may have. If you are anaphylactic to cow’s milk protein - don’t try it at all.
And this is purely a matter of allergy, not intolerance, which is a totally different thing. Goat’s milk (and sheep’s milk, for that matter) have almost exactly the same lactose content as cow’s milk. Therefore Esprix, who is lactose intolerant, should not have goat’s milk unless he wants the same symptoms received from cow’s milk.
I am lactose intolerant and can have goat milk and goat cheese, as well as cow yogurt, just fine. ANECDOTE: Most people I know who are lactose intolerant can eat chevre.
You may want to try Silk or one of the other refrigerated soy milks instead. I like them better than milk.
Yes, most people with LI can have low lactose (or self-digesting) products like cheese and yogurt without noticeable symptoms. Esprix, the OP, indicated that he couldn’t. Or at least couldn’t have straight milk, which is not a low-lactose product. So that’s why I said he would have the same symptoms from from goat’s milk products as he does from cow’s milk products. If he doesn’t get symptoms from the one, he won’t from the other. If he does get symptoms from one, he will from the other.