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@EnricoZenitani 🥹 what why are you throwing up?!? Dont force yourself if you is sickkk
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Let's talk about lactose intolerance, what it is, and how it's different from a true "milk allergy" (which is a very real thing!) 🗒️
To start with the chemistry: lactose is a sugar naturally found in milk/dairy products. It's a 2-ring molecule made of 1 glucose and 1 galactose. Humans can't absorb lactose normally, but we can absorb glucose and galactose via the SGLT-1 transporters in our small intestines. In order to do this, we have a gene that encodes the lactase enzyme, which breaks down the lactose molecule into the individual glucose and galactose components. So even though we can't absorb the big molecule, we can absorb the smaller ones. This allows us to drink milk, cleave lactose in two, and reap the nutritional benefits.
This is actually a pretty recent evolution in human history, only happening sometime in the past 10,000-20,000 years. Our mammalian ancestors actually had no need to be able to digest milk products after being weaned off breastfeeding! So the ability to tolerate milk products was actually supposed to disappear by the time we reached adulthood. Except somewhere along the way, we had some freaks start drinking out of cow udders and making stuff like cheese and yogurt, so the greater ability to digest lactose eventually became part of the gene pool.
If you're one of these primitive ancestors, or just someone who has been told they are lactose intolerant, then you don't get to enjoy things like milkshakes or provolone without suffering some gassy consequences. If you lack the enzyme that encodes lactase, then you just don't make any (or make a reduced amount). In this case, the lactose ends up passing your small intestine without being broken down or absorbed, and travels down to your large intestine, where it meets up with the normal gut bacteria that you have in your colon. Your gut flora usually don't have to deal with full lactose molecules, but when they do, they will start breaking it down in a process called fermentation, which is going to create gasses like hydrogen and carbon dioxide as byproducts. This sudden increase of gasses in your gut is what triggers the common symptoms of lactose intolerance that you may be familiar with: nausea, bloating, flatulence, abdominal pain, etc.
This is where pills like Lactaid come in handy, which are just essentially pre-packaged lactase enyzmes! This gives you enough lactase to tolerate eating that ice cream sandwich, and break down the lactose molecules. Once it gets cleaved into individuall glucose and galactose in your small intestine, it gets absorbed and you don't have to worry about it making its way down to your gut bacteria to screw around with.
In contrast, "milk allergy," technically cow milk protein allergy, is a straight up allergic reaction to the proteins commonly found in dairy products. This is usually identified in the first year of life, and happens thru IgE or T-cell response (depending on type) mechanisms, much in the way a bee sting or poison ivy reaction works. Symptoms can range from bloody stools, to chronic diarrhea, to full-on anaphylactic reactions. So this one is less of an intolerance, and more like a "you need to avoid cow's milk products at all costs because you are actually allergic to the casein/whey/etc. and you will damage your digestive system or develop nutritional deficiencies if you leave this untreated."
In the developed world, we see this in about 2-3% of newborns. Luckily the condition is usually self-limiting and resolves spontaneously in >90% of cases by age 6. You just really need to educate the parents about keeping a dairy-free environment in the home and making sure they are keeping on top of things, because of how disastrous the consequences can be. For breastfeeding mothers, this means that they also need to be put on a cow-milk-free diet (NO cheese, milk, butter, etc.!) so that they can provide their baby with breast milk that won't trigger the reaction. Otherwise, there are extra-hydrolyzed formula alternatives which is probably easier for everyone involved, since this is a battle mostly fought in the environment end. Anyway I'm not a pediatrician so I feel like my expertise ends here, but that's about all I remember about CMPA from med school lolol




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@saikenMD @ScarleYonaguni Oh man would I be happy if you covered milk allergy and how it's the protein and makes eggs off the menu too because so many don't know the difference
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@Kyaree_VT Dude that’s not pda thats public misconduct already 🫠🫠🫠🫠
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@GeneralGEEGA Well that was traumatising lmao dont let the kids see that 😭😬🤣
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The Olaf animatronic at Disney Adventure World has had its first public malfunction. (Source: magictourclub/TikTok)
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@rafcalsballsker Hi 👀 tho I don’t post about them here often. I like em both. Mainly Raf.
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@ScarleYonaguni Oh the parchment.. maybe dont use something that’s not specifically for air fryer.. you can buy a specific liner paper for airfryer
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@ScarleYonaguni That’s normal when using it the first few times! Mine did too i just bought it this March.
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@yordeku We just have a lot of borrowed words from Spanish and English language that never had an equivalent tagalog words. XD
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@Soma_inu Mine was pizza vodka and pen is lmao like huh???
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Ok who am I visiting in April 🫦🫵
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@sylushearts I guess im having nightmares tonight for dinner
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@oddric_ @demenishki Yup they’re just getting that money and enjoys denying visa
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@demenishki had an old friend denied just because they said they were visiting family. rude interviewer too.
10k php down the drain. 💸
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@NiniEverdrew @demenishki The one that interviewed me didn’t even looked at my documents. They just gave me the blue slipped where the denial reason is written
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@demenishki I got insta denied by the UK consul after showing them a shih ton of documents of things that have me tied up to my country. They were like "Uhmm, idk sounds like you want to stay". Bro😭I just want to have some beans on toast, chill
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