It's called Lactose Intolerance. If I drink milk I will generally get a stomach ache and perhaps loose stool.
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Milk and diarea?
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You need a special enzyme to digest the special sugar that's in milk (lactose). Mammals normally have that enzyme only when they are young, and lose it as they get older. If they get milk when they're older, they can't digest the sugar, and it goes right through the intestines, and gives soft stools (in small amounts) or diarrhoea (in large amounts). Some humans got a mutation that enables them to keep digesting milk sugar even when they are adult, and that's very useful. Only some humans have it - it's common among Europeans and Indians, but not among East Asians, for example. Some people don't have it at all, and have to be fed special milk even as a baby.Soy milk has no lactose. However, it does have substances in it that are similar to female sex hormones, so it's better for women than for men. (A bit won't hurt males, but you wouldn't want to drink gallons of it.)
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If you're lactose intollerant other things can mess up your stomach too, not just milk. But milk is usually the big daddy of probs.
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What about orange juice?Sounds weird, I know, but I usually get an upset stomach and diahrea after drinking orange juice.
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Alright, no more milk for me then.What other drinks cause this just so I know what not to drink?
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The only things with lactose in them are dairy products like yoghurt and icecream. Some icecreams don't have a lot in it. Cheese has only a little, and there's probably no need to avoid it. Butter has hardly any.
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Orange juice doesn't have lactose in it... usually. Unless you're drinking some weird orange juice. Like Ineligible said, lactose is found in dairy products. Though, I can understand getting an upset stomach with orange juice because of the acid it contains. Or rather, maybe your body just doesn't like something in the Orange juice. Acid was just an example really.Hey insearch, if you want to eat/drink dairy products there are all kinds of over the counter meds for lactose intollerance. Like lactaid. I can't recommend any meds though because I don't know what's good.
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I usually do get an upset stomach over Orange Juice, but I think it's the acid. So I tend to avoid Orange Juice as well. I don't mind not eating/drinking dairy products, it's no big deal for me.
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I use to have a problem like that. I'd drink milk and have to go #2 a lot. Thankfully it isn't that bad anymore.
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lactose intolerance