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>>119719 >Lactose intolerance is the norm for almost all adult mammals. There is no "cure", because there's really nothing wrong with you to begin with. Lactose intolerance is the inability to cleave a lactose molecule into galactose and glucose. This causes all sorts of problems, from getting diarrhea to extreme bloating and abdominal pain after drinking milk or eating dairy products containing lactose. This is because when the sugar lactose is not digested properly, it lines the colon and ferments via all your little large intestine bacteria buddies. The assertation stated a few writeups below that the initial discomfort experienced after lactose ingestion is due to the displacement of water into your gut would account for diarrhea, but not the massive amounts of gas I seem to get about 20 minutes after eating anything with cream or butter in it.
>Mammals usually begin losing their ability to process lactose at or near puberty. OR EARLIER! Baby mammals do need the ability to process lactose when they are young and breast-feeding. Personally I didn't feel the effects of being lactose intolerant til around age 13-14. It's not a big deal in my culture to be lactose intolerant because adults don't usually drink milk, eat cheese (our mice don't even eat cheese :P), cream or yogurt. But here in America, cheese and friends are everywhere.
>With this in mind, it's probably not a good idea to feed your pet cat any more milk unless you want to stink up the house!
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