Debi, you wrote asking how a mom could take brmilk but not cow's milk?
  There is such media hype over lactose intolerance, everyone seems to
envision themselves with this problem.   People who were raised on formula
are often sensitive the cow's milk protein and that is why wh.cow's milk
causes GI distress.   The other thing which can and does occur is that
after years of not drinking milk a woman will begin to do so out of fear of
osteoporosis or because she is preg/BF and, because there has been no call
for her body to produce lactase, the enzyme manufactured in the body to
digest lactose, her body no longer produces this enzyme.  Now she is
lactose intolerant, but she was not as a baby or child.   God put lactose
in human milk for good reasons (one is that it is a primary brain food),
and consequently, God gave us lactase in sufficient quantities to digest
our own mother's milk.
      My nutrition thoughts....   Michelle Scott, RD,IBCLC   in  NH


Debi wrote:
    Well here's one I haven't heard before..... As I was addressing a
nursing
mothers' meeting, one mom was shocked to learn that human milk has lactose
in
it.  Why the shock?  Because she claims to be so lactose intolerant that
she
becomes uncomfortable even when a smidge of lactose is added to non-dairy
foods, yet she drinks her own milk without a problem.  She assumed that
because she can drink her milk, it must be lactose free, which, of course,
it
is not.
    So now she wants to know why she can drink it.  Is there lactase in
mother's milk?  Some other factor which would help her to break it down?
 She
*really* wants to know and has called me to see if I've found out yet.....
     Any ideas?

THANKS!!!

-Debi Page Ferrarello, RN, IBCLC
Abington, PA