whose symptoms may range from mild
discomfort to intestinal damage to shock.
Most children eventually grow out of milk
allergy.
Milk after Infancy:
Dealing with Lactose
In the animal world, humans are exceptional
for consuming milk of any kind after they
have started eating solid food. And people
who drink milk after infancy are the exception
within the human species. The obstacle is the
milk sugar lactose, which can’t be absorbed
and used by the body as is: it must first be
broken down into its component sugars by
digestive enzymes in the small intestine. The
lactose-digesting enzyme, lactase, reaches its
maximum levels in the human intestinal
lining shortly after birth, and then slowly
declines, with a steady minimum level
commencing at between two and five years of