Good News for Sad Tummies: Lactaid
I’m pretty fortunate…I’ve never had a problem with dairy. I can eat ice cream, cheese, milk, till the cows come home (pun intended.) But my husband and kids are not so much that way. And so many other people around the world suffer with some level of lactose intolerant. To be honest, my family is not that intolerant…if that’s the right way to say that. But if they have a lot of lactose for extended period of time, things start to get ugly. So we just give our kids lactose-free milk–Lactaid.
Lactose is the major carbohydrate in milk and other dairy foods and contains two simple sugars–glucose and galactose. Many peoples’ bodies struggle to break down the lactose into the simple sugars because they lack the enzyme that breaks it down (lactase.) You can develop any amount of lactose intolerance at any point in your life. And it seems like it can come and go–you have it as a baby, then it goes away, then you get it again as an adult.
I participated in a informational session about Lactaid and I learned a lot of things I didn’t know. Did you know that Lactaid carries things besides milk? They also have cottage cheese, egg nog, even ice cream. (That’s good news for my brother who is extremely lactose intolerant!) The ice cream comes in Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookies & Cream, Strawberries & Cream, Butter Pecan.
The Lactaid milk is real milk, just 100% lactose free. And it’s calcium enriched. The lactase enzyme is added to the milk to break down the lactose which makes it a tiny bit sweeter. If you want to cook with it, you don’t even notice. We’ve been drinking Lactaid for years and so has my brother who swears by it. No tummy troubles here!
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I’m actually eating cereal with it now. Best product ever! I have only tried the skim milk though…maybe the higher fat milks would be better in some recipes.
My husband and kids are also lactose intolerant. It makes it so easy to have lactaid milk for my boys.
I am lactose intolerant so I’ve tried their milk and ice cream.
I’m not sure if my almost 2 year old daughter is or isn’t lactose tolerant. A few of her behaviors with milk lately makes me think she might be, so I’d love to give this a try!
I wold love to try it! I can’t drink milk so I’m drinking soy milk and so is my daughter which we still give her formula
, if she will drink a cup of milk every day things won’t bee to good!
I’ve just recently had some problems so yes, I would love to try it!
My daughter is having tummy troubles with lactose. So, she’ll be gifted!
just in the past few months I’ve started to have trouble with milk and cheese – would love to try this to see if it helps!
I am lactose intolerant and always buy their milks. I would love to try the cottage cheese!
My youngest has an allergy to the proteins found in milk and soy so we have been trying to figure that out.
I’d like to try Lactaid because we have come to suspect that my 2nd oldest daughter is lactose intolerant – we’re still in the eliminate and see period. Boo for her!
Major tummy issues here 🙁 Yay to find out all about this!
My sister has a very lactose intolerant stomach, and it’s gettin worse. It doesn’t help that she continues to eat regular dairy. I’m sure she’d love to try some Lactaid milk. Right now she takes the pills Lactaid makes before eating dairy products.
We go through lots of Lactaid at our house! I have two that are lactose intolerant. I didn’t know they had more than milk though. Maybe I need to do some searching! Thanks
I would for sure try it, we have a milk allergy at our house so I cook with rice milk.