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Overcoming Dairy Blues

By Paromeeta Ray
Category: health

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Deficiency of Calcium can harm bones and teeth severely. Calcium-deficient bodies develop osteoporosis making the bones fracture-prone. The principal sources of Calcium in our diet are milk and milk products. But there are many of us who experience acidity, gastric discomfort, bloating, or even diarrhea, on consuming milk, curd, ice cream or other milk products. Repeated occurrences of these complaints on consumption of dairy products prompt us to completely avoid dairy consumption. Often doctors are also compelled to advise complete avoidance of dairy products due to the patients’ intolerance to such food.
But keeping the risk of Calcium-deficiency and its grave outcomes in mind, doctors, after some time, attempt to retrain the patients’ bowels to enable them to start digesting dairy products without any discomfort.

How this retraining is done:

If we completely leave out milk and milk products from our diet, it means that we have stopped consuming lactose. Absence of lactose in our food stops our body from making the lactose-digesting enzyme called lactase.
Doctors advise to resume consumption of lactose-containing items by taking very small amounts of milk, say one teaspoon of milk daily, for a week. If this does not cause any discomfort, the amount of milk can be increased gradually to two teaspoonfuls for the next week. This increase rate should be maintained until one can have and digest one small cup of milk without any problem whatsoever.
This is done to encourage the bowel to start making lactase or any other lactose-digesting enzyme and gradually increase the enzyme-production.
If one is not being able to undergo this retraining without any discomfort, a genuine problem is indicated.

These people, chronically intolerant to dairy products, are then advised to include calcium-rich food like sea-fish, green leafy vegetables, tofu and calcium-loaded soya milk, in their daily diet, to avoid Calcium-deficiency and osteoporosis.