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Can acute or chronic pancreatitis cause secondary lactose intolerance?
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No: Unrelated, lactase is an enzyme produced by the small intestine not the pancreas, the lack of which, for several reasons, leads to lactose intolerance, and not the pancreatic problems
Answered 4/24/2016
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No: Lactase, the enzyme missing from lactose intolerant people, is normally made and present in the absorptive cells lining the inside of the intestine.The pancreas makes enzymes that are transported to and added to the stuff you are digesting.About a 4th of adults are lactose intolerant.
Answered 2/11/2019
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