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For someone with mild milk intolerance, after drinking milk for years causing laxative effect, would it become habit-forming? what about lactulose?
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Lactose intolerance: You do not have the enzyme (lactase) to break down the lactose sugar in milk and thereby the bacteria in your gut have a field day fermenting the sugar and producing the gas and diarrhea. Try lactaid milk or take a couple of lactase tab before drinking milk. Yogurt and cheese however have very little lactose in general.
Answered 11/24/2013
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