If he were lactose intollerant, you would have known the first week. The symptoms would have been severe and he wouldn't be growing.
Does dad have congenital LI or primary LI? Was he born with it, or did it develop later on?
Dairy-protein intollerance is a bigger concern for babies... with that he may not have symptoms now, but it may cause issues down the road.
Do you *want* to be supplementing?
Quoting SewingMamaLele:If he were lactose intollerant, you would have known the first week. The symptoms would have been severe and he wouldn't be growing.
Does dad have congenital LI or primary LI? Was he born with it, or did it develop later on?
Dairy-protein intollerance is a bigger concern for babies... with that he may not have symptoms now, but it may cause issues down the road.
Do you *want* to be supplementing?
not necessarily...it's actually quite uncommon for an infant to be lactose intolerant (seeing as that's what breastmilk mostly is), but as you age your body produces less of the chemicals that break down lactose so you may still become lactose intollerant as you age.
Babies are not lactose intollerant because human milk is really high in lactose (unless they have galactosemia which is really rare and serious, and they have to be on prescription formula). A certain percentage of humand lose their ability to digest lactose in early childhood. So, it is possible that he could develop lactose intollerance when he gets older.



- Kaylahk
on Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM