How can you tell if your lactose intolerant?

THESE Symptoms: Symptoms often occur 30 minutes -2 hours after you eat or drink milk products, and are often relieved by avoiding milk products. Large doses of milk products may cause worse symptoms. Symptoms include: nausea, abdominal bloating, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, gas (flatulence).

Lactose Intolerance: It is the inability to digest lactose because of deficiency of enzyme lactase.It can be congenital or aquired.Lactose is the sugar in milk.Symptoms can start 30 minutes to 2 hours after ingestion of milk or dairy products. Symptoms are abdominal bloating, cramps, flatulance, diarrhea, nausea, rumbling in stomach&vomiting.Most of the time diagnosed clinically can be confirmed with hydrogen breath test.

Lactose intolerance?: Lactose breath testing (objective) or a clinical response to lactase enzyme supplements &/or milk avoidance (subjective decline in the gassiness & diarrhea associated with ingesting lactose) may clarify your concern. Some (particularly children) with suspected lactose intolerance however are intolerance to other milk components. Bleeding, weight loss, significant tenderness is not lactose intol.

Breath testing: There is a simple breath test that many labs run to diagnose lactose intolerance.