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Can Lactose Intolerance Cause Constipation?

3,441 views · Published 2 July 2018 · 2:26 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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In a world of high tech people still get constipated. Here's some what is hopefully common sense advice on overcoming constipation.

Click on this link for an article with plenty of hints and tips on constipation: http://ericbakker.com/constipation/

Greetings Eric Bakker. Thanks for coming back and checking out the video. I have a question here. Can lactose intolerance cause constipation? No it doesn't. In fact, lactose intolerance causes the opposite, it generally causes diarrhea. So lactose is a sugar found in milk. The small intestine makes an enzyme called lactase, which breaks it down to galactose and glucose. Basically it creates one sugar and breaks it down into another kind of sugar. 

But if you don't have sufficient lactase you can get a lot of bloating, cramping, pain, diarrhea, gas, all within two hours or three hours of drinking milk. We call that a dairy intolerance, not an allergy, because not having sufficient lactase is not an allergy, it means you've got an insufficiency of that enzyme, which makes you intolerant to the sugar in milk or lactase. So, if you don't have lactose you can't break down ... If you don't have lactase you can't break down lactose and you get diarrhea or cramping. 

Constipation can be caused from the allergy to dairy milk. There's a protein in dairy milk called casein, particularly beta casein. So beta casein, some people can't really break this protein down properly, and they have a dairy allergy. That is some cases can cause constipation with people, or bloating, cramping, pain. So, you know, small hard lumps of stool can be caused through this dairy allergy problem. 

So what do you do? What do you do if you've got a problem with lactose? Well some people can take lactase tablets, the actual enzyme. But in my opinion if you've got a problem with milk, just keep away from the stuff, avoid it. It's like some people, if you don't like them you have an allergy to the person, you avoid the person you don't modify the person. Just get them the hell out of the road. Right? Same with this here, if you don't like milk or your body can't tolerate it just avoid it. 

Generally that's all you need to do is to avoid that. So yeah, if you have got constipation and you're drinking milk stop the milk to see what happens. It may be the problem. It could be the milk. I've had many clients I've seen in the past who develop constipation from milk, so it can be linked to it but it's generally not lactose. Because remember lactose will create the diarrhea and not the constipation. Confusing? Watch the video again. Thanks for checking me out. Thank you, bye, bye.

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