How can people treat lactose intolerance?
People can buy the lactase enzyme, though it’s not quite as effective as if your own body was making the enzyme. It’s available in liquid form and can be added to food to make it more digestible. People can either pre-treat a jug of milk themselves with the enzyme drops, or they can buy commercially prepared products such as lactose-free milk in the dairy section of most supermarkets or specialty stores. You can also take a lactase supplement in capsule or pill form. For milk, it’s probably better to treat with lactase enzyme or buy already lactose-free milk because all of the lactose is broken down in advance. But if you’re going out to dinner and somebody’s serving lasagne with ricotta cheese, the options are either to avoid that kind of food or try taking an enzyme capsule before you eat it. What is the biggest misunderstanding about lactose intolerance? Well, number one, that it’s very common and it’s really a normal state of being for much of the world, so it’s not really a diseas
