Lactose intolerance

I'd assume that the lack of lactose digestion would led less gas. Gas is a by-product of digestion. It suggests that the bacteria in your intestines are hard at work.


Are you speaking from experience?

no not experience, this is something i read on wikipedia or some other site. They said that lactose ingestion by someone who is lactose intolerant leads to stomach cramps and diarrhea.


just to help me understand what you were saying about gas production, were you saying that since less of the ingested lactose quantity gets digested, less total gas should be produced?

regardless of 'how' however, it sounds like you're saying that the ingestion of lactose by a lactose intolerant individual should produce less gas. but all the sites i've visited state that more gas is produced. although i'm more interested in what is actually going on, i don't have the chemistry background just yet i am still in organic chem 1 so i don't understand reactions, but if you know of a website that has basic information on what's going on during lactose digestion could you refer me to it?

Yes, that's my hypothesis. The less it gets digested, the less gas that is produced. I might be wrong, but it makes sense since gas is a by-product of digestion.

Send me one of those websites that makes this claim.