One is an allergy hypersensitivity that triggers the release of histamine that (in this scenario) closes the throat and causes the person to die.
The other is a lack of an enzyme in the stomach to break down a specific component, so instead bacteria break it down. When they break it down, gas is released, which causes the stomach to be irritated.
So one is your throat literally trying to kill you, vs your stomach being irritated (possibly very bad). Not downplaying lactose intolerance, but its not the same as a type 1 hypersensitivity
Edit - as pointed out, most the stuff for lactose intolerance happens in the intestines not the stomach
Small correction: the stomach does not break down lactose, it's in the small intestine where lactase breaks it down into glucose and galactose which are then absorbed. The irritation that occurs in lactose intolerant people is an irritation of the colon due to the gaseous bloat allowing more liquid to enter, the stomach is unaffected by all of this.
Dude, you could live in the open air with me and there wouldn't be enough ventilation to dissipate my noxious butt cloud after I drink a glass of milk.
Milk I'm fine on, but even if I didn't have LI I'd prefer Oat, it's ice cream that gets me - trust me, I've tried em all, nothing dairy free compares to a pint of Ben n Jerry's (yes, not even their own dairy free stuff)
People on top of a skyscraper: “Please don’t push me off; I’ll die”
People in a war: “Please don’t shoot me, I’ll die.”
People at Disneyland: “Omg Disneyland is so fun.”
Absolutely agree with your point. But as someone who's (granted, pretty severely) lactose intolerant, I most definitely wouldn't call it Disneyland lol
Alright, I got a cow, but now there's this asshole lurking about going on about "magic beans".
The cows doing nothing. She's staring at him while she chews cud. What do I do? Can I stab him? She seems like a good cow, I don't see a need to trade her for some beans, but he refuses to leave.
I was lactose intolerant as a baby. Grew out of it and ate cheese all the time. Then at 28 I was suddenly lactose intolerant again. Still eat cheese all the time but I just keep lactaid on me.
When I was a kid, I was diagnosed as being lactose intolerant as well. The thing is, I'm not lactose intolerant at all. I'm actually gluten intolerant. It's very hard to diagnose without cutting gluten out of one's diet. And I only figured out because I started making bread a few times each week and got very sick.
The thing is, I always used to think I'd outgrown my lactose intolerance, too. If you have the time, maybe give a gluten free diet a try. My life is so much different now after cutting out gluten. At one point I was going to the gym for 2 hours a day, trying to lose weight, but I just couldn't. Now, I'm the skinniest I've been in years and I mostly sit around.
Unfortunately, the diet really does have to be totally gluten free. Even cross contamination will give me noticable problems for days. The body basically cripples its ability to intake nutrients after having any amount of gluten and it takes time to heal. On the bright side, it's a pretty easy diet to follow when eating at home and a lot of restaurants now have gluten free options, too.
I was about to say you're full of malarky, but then I looked it up - and you're right, aged cheeses are extremely low in lactose. Some as low as 1 mg per 100 g. Too bad I also have alpha gal allergy at the moment and it's thought that mammal products that don't cause anaphylaxis still have enough of the alpha gal sugar cause an inflammatory response/unstable arterial plaques that greatly increases stroke risk.
Cows milk will make me very sick, but cheese is my weakness. I can tolerate (hard) cheese and a bit of butter, but everything else... Nope. Not even ice cream. Upside is I can eat all the cheese I want and not get stopped up. 🙃🫠
Wait.... your version of lactose intolerance is you get "stopped up"?!? My version is dairy-based Draino pressure washing the bowl in brown noisomeness.
Oh, no. Sorry for the confusion. My husband, who is NOT lactose intolerant, will get constipated after eating lots of cheese while I will not.
Besides the loose bowel movements afterwards, I can also do a fair impersonation of one of the kids from a horror film (the exorcist, maybe) and have it spew from the other end.
The upside is that the best high-dairy foods (ice cream and macaroni) are pretty easy to throw up, so there's that I guess. I'm not as badly affected as I when I was a kid but I loved macaroni then and I still do. Lactaid pills were a lifechanger.
95% of People who are allergic to gluten and dairy are unable to control themselves around bread, noodles and cheese. Yeah, I wonder why you feel backed up, Eric, after hoovering the charcuterie board