DIET FOR LACTOSE INTOLERANCE - DIET AND NUTRITION

Diet for lactose intolerance



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The diet for lactose intolerance is based on reducing the consumption or exclusion of foods containing lactose, such as milk and its derivatives. Following the lactose-free diet makes the symptoms of lactose intolerance disappear, such as diarrhea or abdominal pain. Lactose intolerance is the inability of the individual to digest the lactose present in milk due to the absence of the enzyme lactase in the small intestine, so that it should already have been partially digested arrives in the large intestine still unaltered and is fermented by bacteria, having as gas, diarrhea and abdominal pain