Essay On Lactose Intolerance

To understand the ways to manage the lactose intolerance in infants, we also need to know several terms used related to the issue. When we discussing about lactose intolerance, it is cumpolsory for us to know the differences between primary, secondary, congenital, and developmental lactase deficiency and also terms of lactose intolerance, lactose malabsorption, and also lactose overload in which all of this terms have their own definition. (Heyman, 2006) Lactose intolerance can be divided into two types, which were primary lactose intolerance and secondary lactose intolerance. Primary lactose intolerance is a term used to refer to the born infants without any lactase enzyme (genetic factor) and they need a special diet requirement while the secondary lactose intolerance

Developmental lactase deficiency refer to the relative lactase deficiency observed among preterm infants of less than 34 weeks’ gestation, lactose malabsorption can be defined as the physiologic problem that manifests as lactose intolerance attributable to an imbalance between the amount of ingested lactose and the capacity for lactase to hydrolyze the disaccharide. Lactose overload refer to the functional lactase insufficiency that presents with almost identical symptoms as lactose intolerance but babies experiencing gastric symptoms related to lactose overload are healthy and gain good (even large) amounts of weight compare to the child with lactose intolerance, who fails to gain weight and is very unwell. Lastly lactose intolerance is a clinical syndrome of 1 or more of the following symtopms stated where the amount of lactose that will cause symptoms depends on individual, amount of lactose consumed, the degree of lactase deficiency, and the form of food substance in which the lactose is