OP says it right there: allergy vs intolerance
102Fiancée thought she had lactose intolerance, told she had since a young age. She cut out dairy for more than a year and then accidentally ingested some. Turns out it was an allergy and she had to go to the hospital.
47Yup. It fucking sucks.
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People who are lactose intolerant don't usually die from it.
People with peanut allergies very quickly die from it.
Don't think these are really comparable.
56But you just compared them
15This is the real difference.
One is an allergy hypersensitivity that triggers the release of histamine that (in this scenario) closes the throat and causes the person to die.
The other is a lack of an enzyme in the stomach to break down a specific component, so instead bacteria break it down. When they break it down, gas is released, which causes the stomach to be irritated.
So one is your throat literally trying to kill you, vs your stomach being irritated (possibly very bad). Not downplaying lactose intolerance, but its not the same as a type 1 hypersensitivity
Edit - as pointed out, most the stuff for lactose intolerance happens in the intestines not the stomach
14Small correction: the stomach does not break down lactose, it's in the small intestine where lactase breaks it down into glucose and galactose which are then absorbed. The irritation that occurs in lactose intolerant people is an irritation of the colon due to the gaseous bloat allowing more liquid to enter, the stomach is unaffected by all of this.
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This is also how you make a bomb that will leave your SO questioning their life choices
28My ex-roommate was like that.
There were not enough windows to open in that place we lived in. Not nearly enough.
4Dude, you could live in the open air with me and there wouldn't be enough ventilation to dissipate my noxious butt cloud after I drink a glass of milk.
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I just glug down my chocolate oat milk. Hits the same spot, without the explosive side effects.
21Milk I'm fine on, but even if I didn't have LI I'd prefer Oat, it's ice cream that gets me - trust me, I've tried em all, nothing dairy free compares to a pint of Ben n Jerry's (yes, not even their own dairy free stuff)
2nice!
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Carpe Kaseum: Seize the cheese.
17Seize the means of cheese production!
3Alright, I got a cow, but now there's this asshole lurking about going on about "magic beans".
The cows doing nothing. She's staring at him while she chews cud. What do I do? Can I stab him? She seems like a good cow, I don't see a need to trade her for some beans, but he refuses to leave.
6There are strategic cheese reserves in Missouri
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Carpe Kasem: Seize the ground and the stars.
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I was lactose intolerant as a child. I insisted on eating ice cream anyways. One day, I realized I was no longer lactose intolerant.
16I was lactose intolerant as a baby. Grew out of it and ate cheese all the time. Then at 28 I was suddenly lactose intolerant again. Still eat cheese all the time but I just keep lactaid on me.
9When I was a kid, I was diagnosed as being lactose intolerant as well. The thing is, I'm not lactose intolerant at all. I'm actually gluten intolerant. It's very hard to diagnose without cutting gluten out of one's diet. And I only figured out because I started making bread a few times each week and got very sick.
The thing is, I always used to think I'd outgrown my lactose intolerance, too. If you have the time, maybe give a gluten free diet a try. My life is so much different now after cutting out gluten. At one point I was going to the gym for 2 hours a day, trying to lose weight, but I just couldn't. Now, I'm the skinniest I've been in years and I mostly sit around.
Unfortunately, the diet really does have to be totally gluten free. Even cross contamination will give me noticable problems for days. The body basically cripples its ability to intake nutrients after having any amount of gluten and it takes time to heal. On the bright side, it's a pretty easy diet to follow when eating at home and a lot of restaurants now have gluten free options, too.
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I made a other version of this meme:
People on top of a skyscraper: “Please don’t push me off; I’ll die”
People in a war: “Please don’t shoot me, I’ll die.”
People at Disneyland: “Omg Disneyland is so fun.”16It really makes you think
9Absolutely agree with your point. But as someone who's (granted, pretty severely) lactose intolerant, I most definitely wouldn't call it Disneyland lol
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I need my cheese and my yogurt. Thankfully, I can digest them. Ha ha, I win the evolution game.
13Plenty of cheese are lactose-free. It is destroyed during the fermentation.
14I was about to say you're full of malarky, but then I looked it up - and you're right, aged cheeses are extremely low in lactose. Some as low as 1 mg per 100 g. Too bad I also have alpha gal allergy at the moment and it's thought that mammal products that don't cause anaphylaxis still have enough of the alpha gal sugar cause an inflammatory response/unstable arterial plaques that greatly increases stroke risk.
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Am I lactose intolerant or am I just really good at clearing out rooms of unwanted guests?
9I've understood that you can get over some allergies with tolerance treatment.
I've also understood that the older you get, the more allergies you get.
7Cows milk will make me very sick, but cheese is my weakness. I can tolerate (hard) cheese and a bit of butter, but everything else... Nope. Not even ice cream. Upside is I can eat all the cheese I want and not get stopped up. 🙃🫠
6Wait.... your version of lactose intolerance is you get "stopped up"?!? My version is dairy-based Draino pressure washing the bowl in brown noisomeness.
7Oh, no. Sorry for the confusion. My husband, who is NOT lactose intolerant, will get constipated after eating lots of cheese while I will not.
Besides the loose bowel movements afterwards, I can also do a fair impersonation of one of the kids from a horror film (the exorcist, maybe) and have it spew from the other end.
8Normies get stopped up by cheese, us intolerants counteract the constipation with explosive diarrhea.
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The upside is that the best high-dairy foods (ice cream and macaroni) are pretty easy to throw up, so there's that I guess. I'm not as badly affected as I when I was a kid but I loved macaroni then and I still do. Lactaid pills were a lifechanger.
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Dairy is just too tasty to pass up. 🐮🧀🥛🍦🍧🍨🧈
5And then....💩💩💩💩💩
2Delicious laxatives.
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cope
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95% of People who are allergic to gluten and dairy are unable to control themselves around bread, noodles and cheese. Yeah, I wonder why you feel backed up, Eric, after hoovering the charcuterie board
4And?
2...And leave the room.
4Coooool you're so cryptic and cool
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... And leave the room
1Yeah it’s so weird that milk not being lethal doesn’t completely turn me off to it.
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