Worse, I'm pretty sure I've been told in the past and can't remember :)
I'm pretty sure that's normal to forget. Or at least typical.
Hardly anyone remembers that I'm DF, not lactose free. And if they know someone who is lactose free, you can bet your bottom dollar they'll forget what part I can't eat!
Fresh Alpro is surprisingly nice. Especially compared to UHT stuff. Probably worth a go freezing it.
I think it's something to do with proteins, and whatever it is is present in cow-milk but not other-milk. She's (relatively) lucky then.
When my allergist figured out the dairy issue, I asked about other animal milk, and got told the proteins were sufficiently similar to still cause issues for most people* (though t'interwebs does say that some people can, just as some people can manage heat treated dairy products if it's only the heat-denaturable proteins that they can't have).
*I couldn't tell you what "people" actually means in that context. People with atopy? People that have been having a bad response to dairy? Adults going to see an allergist? All people who have an immune response to dairy protein** **AIUI, that group would mostly be infants.
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Date: 2012-10-15 03:06 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure that's normal to forget. Or at least typical.
Hardly anyone remembers that I'm DF, not lactose free. And if they know someone who is lactose free, you can bet your bottom dollar they'll forget what part I can't eat!
Fresh Alpro is surprisingly nice. Especially compared to UHT stuff. Probably worth a go freezing it.
I think it's something to do with proteins, and whatever it is is present in cow-milk but not other-milk.
She's (relatively) lucky then.
When my allergist figured out the dairy issue, I asked about other animal milk, and got told the proteins were sufficiently similar to still cause issues for most people* (though t'interwebs does say that some people can, just as some people can manage heat treated dairy products if it's only the heat-denaturable proteins that they can't have).
*I couldn't tell you what "people" actually means in that context. People with atopy? People that have been having a bad response to dairy? Adults going to see an allergist? All people who have an immune response to dairy protein**
**AIUI, that group would mostly be infants.