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Milk Allergy vs. Lactose Intolerance or how much lactose can a person with lactose intolerance have?
People sometimes confuse lactose intolerance with a milk allergy, but these are completely different things caused by different components of dairy milk. Dairy milk is made up of several different components, such as proteins - casein and whey, milk sugar (called lactose), fats and water among many others. All true food allergies are caused by an immune system overreaction to the proteins. If you have a milk allergy, your immune system identifies certain milk proteins as harm
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