> think) and I started sitting him too- turns out he's NOT lactose
 > intolerant. BUT his mom says she feels it would be unfair to her
 > daughter to let her son eat all those lactose goodies.
 CS>  >
 > What do you think?

 CS> This time the Mom is probably right.  Lactose intolerance develops in
 CS> many people as a function of age.  That a person as a child can
 CS> tolerate it, doesn't mean they do not develop the trait whern older. 
 CS> It definately runs in families so exposure to too much lactose with
 CS> the other child can *cause* earlier reaction.

 IIRC that only happens if the child drinks very little to no
milk at all/was given cows milk too young?

The idea is in order to tolerate lactose you need to have
the enzyme for it and the only away to get that is by ingesting foods
with lactose (where in we get the lacto bacilli for the enzyme. But
granted some people even if they have they have the enzyme, something
else is going on where the enzyme doesn't work.

But thanks for pointing this aspect out to me Carol. I Hadn't thought
of latent intolerance (that is developing it later on. ALso both
children had been breast fed and maybe she weaned the daughter off too
soon? That could have been a factor so yeah she'd be more careful with
her son. Come to think of it now, that's probably the case.

By the way. Why did she give as a reason "because it's not fair"..
that's perplexing. She could have said, Because I'm worried about the
baby becoming intolerant too, so want to take things slow. hmm!

 .........

 CS> Asians have a classic reaction there.  As infants they tolerate it but
 CS> as they reach adulthood, that tolerance drops off.  It's pretty normal
 CS> to remove all milk from the diet by age 5.  Dont worry, they use other
 CS> things for calcium levels.


 That's interesting and yes there are other sources such as green
veggies. I also found out- has anyone read up more on this?- that when
we were kids all that chocolate our moms put into our milk to entice
us to drink more milk actually slowed down calcium absorption! Also if
you're taking the synthetic thyroid hormone, or iron supplements don't
take it with calcium because calcium slows their absorption down.
Amazing we survive eh? :)

Cinders

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