If you feel sick and/or uncomfortable after eating milk and dairy products, it is very likely that you have circumstantial lactose intolerance. This diagnosis was even given to President Lula da Silva, who had to change his diet to suit the circumstances.
Circumstantial lactose intolerance
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A lactose intolerance it is increasingly being diagnosed in the lives of several people and our president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was not left out of this. According to EXTRA, the president had to review his entire diet so that it was adequate to the diagnosis obtained.
So, if you are a person who, when eating dairy products, ends up feeling certain discomfort, you probably have circumstantial lactose intolerance too.
But what would circumstantial intolerance be?
Most people already know that lactose intolerance is the body's deficiency in the production of enzymes capable of digesting milk sugar. However, few people understand when we bring up the term “circumstantial”.
According to endocrinologist Ana Flávia Torquato, the term circumstantial appears due to the fact that people have different degrees of intolerance.
“There is the one where the person cannot eat anything and there is the one that is partial, in which some things are tolerated and others are not. There is also the post-infectious one, which occurs when the patient has an intestinal disorder. So, you can completely deregulate and lose the enzyme just for a period, ”she says.
The last case, mentioned by the endocrinologist, is considered to be the transitory form of the condition, lasting only two weeks. “Afterwards, the person tends to recover when there is regeneration of the intestinal mucosa”, explains the specialist.
Is lactose intolerance curable?
Before answering the question, the expert recalls the fact that lactose intolerance has different degrees, varying with the level of deficiency of the body in the production of the enzyme. Then she claims that it is a chronic condition, so it has no cure, with the exception, of course, of passing cases resulting from intestinal infections.
The medical diagnosis is made through blood tests, but it can be easily perceived by the patient based on how the body reacts to the ingestion of milk and its derivatives.