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Lactose Intolerance in Infants

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Lactose intolerance is the term given to the body’s varying degrees of inefficiency in the digestion of lactose. Inside the small intestine an enzyme called ‘lactase’ is produced, and it is this enzyme which is needed to digest lactose. For reasons which shall be explained in a moment, when lactase is in short supply within [...]


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