I am 94 years old.
I have had lactose intolerance all of my life.
My mother did not recognize it as lactose intolerance nor did I until I was of college age.
It is no joke. It can be very painful. A glass of milk or a ice cream cone can totally ruin my digestive system for 24 hours.
Just because you just found out does not mean that it is a new thing. All it means is that you just found out.
94 years old. You never had special formulas made by big pharma. There’s options and far less are lactose intolerant. 2 or our 3 kids had reactions to formula so we fed them a soupy mix of baby cereal and some milk like almond and so forth. There’s plenty of options..it’s amazing that people are crying out for government to do more when literally are creating the problems we see today.
I pretty much hate dairy, although I do like ice cream and some cheeses. (Maybe I do have lactose intolerance to a degree. If I have ice cream there had better be a bathroom two minutes away. Yuk.)
If Hubby eats yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, etc., I have to move to the other side of the room because the smell makes me gag.