Can anyone tell me more about Lactose intolerance in babies?

Answer 1

they don't have the enzyme to digest lactose, so they may have diarrhea, too

so you should avoid feeding those babies with food with lactose in them, such as milk products, etc

they can take some enzyme pills to help to digest milk, etc

some people were born with low lactose enzyme

Answer 2

Lactose intolerance is defined as lacking the enzyme used to break down lactose in milk. Symptoms can vary but often include diarrhea, bad gas, abdominal. pain, and/or cramping. Lactose intolerance is different than an allergy, a milk allergy is an immune reaction to the protein of milk. Lactose intolerance is the body's inability to digest a part of the milk.
If a baby is diagnosed as lactose intolerant (often a baby may be incorrectly diagnosed just because many of the symptoms are common in babies and its easy to try eliminating lactose from their diets) a doctor will change baby to lactose free formula or if baby is breast fed Mom needs to eliminate dairy from her diet. Symptoms should improve after 3-4 days after changing the diet.
Often even if a baby was diagnosed as lactose intolerant its OK to do a trial of milk at 1 year, watching carefully for any signs of intolerance. If a child is lactose intolerant they can still drink Lactaid milk, and there are even cheese alternatives and lactase pills that can be taken before eating diary. Hope this helps. Good luck!

Answer 3

Lactose is the sugar in the milk of all mammals, humans included. Lactose intolerance- loss of the enzyme that is used to digest it- usually is after the age of weaning- later than age 4. It is extremely rare- 1 in a million- for infants to be lactose intolerant, as prior to the invention of formula, such babies died from malnutrition.

However, babies can be intolerant of cow's milk (or other food allergens)- due the proteins in it, not the lactose; and these issues can also carry through if the mother drinks the dairy and breast feeds. (that's also why babies aren't supposed to drink cow's milk prior to one year of age). So stopping dairy (or other common irritants/gas producing foods, such as broccoli), for the mother, may reduce issues for the baby.

It's almost never nutritionally better to feed a baby formula rather than breast milk, but the mother may need to modify what she eats during the nursing months.

Answer 4

If a baby is lactose intolerant; he either needs soy formula or the nursing mother needs to avoid dairy products in her diet. My son became lactose intolerant when I was nursing him and if I ate dairy products, it would bother him.

Answer 5

you would have to elimanate the milk that you think he is intorerlant too but it sounds as if the baby has colic and needs to be put on soy milk