Difference Between Milk Allergy and Lactose Intolerance
Milk allergy is a food allergy, an adverse immune reaction to a food protein that is normally harmless to the non-allergic individual. Lactose intolerance is a non-allergic food sensitivity, and comes from a lack of production of the enzyme lactase, required to digest the predominant sugar in milk. Adverse effects of lactose intolerance generally occur after much higher levels of milk consumption than do adverse effects of milk allergy.
(Lactose intolerance is considered the normal state for most adults on a worldwide scale and is not typically considered to be a disease condition.)
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