Dr Ravindra BS | Appointment Booking No. 8762910298
Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist | Meenakshi Gastro Liver Care
Milk or lactose is a very good food for all of us but when we reach adolescence or patents beyond 20 years, they start developing unfortunately milk intolerance that means 18 to 20 years or some patients beyond 20 years they start developing milk intolerance, means they don’t start absorbing lactose in the milk in the small intestine when they develop this milk intolerance, they don’t absorb the lactose or the milk. They usually present with bloating they produce lot of gases, that this flatulence, they pass wind from down, then they have mild abdominal pain and the also present with diarrhea. These are the symptoms and the treatment is simple. Identify the Lactose Intolerance, one by avoiding the milk and there is also the a test called as Lactose breath test and once we confirm this these patients we allow Lactose free milk and better to avoid milk, that is what we tell them.
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