Can Homeopathy cure lactose intolerance ?

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance. ,...
I wondered whether Homeopathy can offer cure or at least
improvement for people suffering from lactose intolerance.
I know that the answers to such a question might not be
clear-cut, and that Homeopathic treatment has to be
adjusted to a person's specific physical and mental
conditions. ...

Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does not
cure anything, because it does not contain anything. You
would be in a whole world of hurt if you depended on it to
cure anything remotely real (oh, say, like high blood
pressure, food allergies or encephalitis). There is also a
million dollar prize out there for any homeopath who can
prove it works (no one has won that prize yet).

My sister has been lactose intolerant her entire life. It is
not the end of the world. There are many other substitutes
for milk products (my sister likes a frozen confection
called Tofutti). There are also some medications for lactose
intolorance (like Lacaid, sp?).

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance. That
is, from that point of time she practically cannot digest
milk products. Many say that this is "for life" and that
it cannot be cured. There are lactase tablets that can be
taken with meals to replace the enzyme her body no longer
produces, but that's not a real solution to the problem,
and definitely not a cure.

Has she been assessed medically? This is not my field, but
is it not somewhat unusual for lactose intolerance to
appear suddenly at this age? Make sure the diagnosis is
right first.

Peter Moran.

I think a lot of people who try homeopathic products
(ususally over the counter) think they are taking herbal
concoctions & don't really understand the "theories" behind
homeopathy. This was me, over a year ago, when I took the
Arnica Montana (which is a flower) 30C pellets for my knee
pain. I did notice a little printing on the Boiron box that
said if I didn't get results after using the complete
supply, I should consult my physician...I didn't so I did.

Homeopathy sure does cosider some odd products for their
dilution; latex rubber condoms (???) & bits of The Berlin
Wall (for those that feel trapped?) come to mind.

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance. That
is, from that point of time she practically cannot digest
milk products. Many say that this is "for life" and that
it cannot be cured. There are lactase tablets that can be
taken with meals to replace the enzyme her body no longer
produces, but that's not a real solution to the problem,
and definitely not a cure.

So using these tablets she can still use milk products? That
sounds like quite a good deal since milk isn't really a
neccesary part of one's diet except for babies and even with
babies alternatives can be used.

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I wondered whether Homeopathy can offer cure or at least
improvement for people suffering from lactose intolerance.
I know that the answers to such a question might not be
clear-cut, and that Homeopathic treatment has to be
adjusted to a person's specific physical and mental
conditions. Nevertheless, I do believe that prior
experience can provide some answers. Has any of you ever
treated lactose intolerance with Homeopathy ? Does any of
you know of cases in which Homeopathic treatment helped ?

I doubt it unless homeopathy could activate the production
of the enzyme she no longer produces. If there were such a
cure it should be easy to find since it would be a fairly
popular one given the large amount of people who are lactose
intolerant.

Vashti

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Or did your kids get tubes puncturing their eardrums? (are
you allowed to have children?)

How can you avoid fluid build up behind the eardrums? My 7
year old has no hearing in his left ear so it's *very*
important that his right ear functions as well as possible.
He's needed grommets placed twice despite only having had an
earache caused by a mild infection once. That earache
responded immediately to a(warmed) onion compress. He still
has an onion beside his bed whenever he has a cold to keep
his nasal passages clear and he still has trouble hearing
with his good ear.

Vashti

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance.
That is, from that point of time she practically cannot
digest milk products. Many say that this is "for life"
and that it cannot be cured. There are lactase tablets
that can be taken with meals to replace the enzyme her
body no longer produces, but that's not a real solution
to the problem, and definitely not a cure.

Has she been assessed medically? This is not my field, but
is it not somewhat unusual for lactose intolerance to
appear suddenly at this age? Make sure the diagnosis is
right first.

Peter Moran.

The right answer.

hmmm.. the homeopathic remedies I have taken don't seem to
be water. The hard little pills and oil based solutions
don't taste or feel like water to
me. dumb dumb

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance.
,... I wondered whether Homeopathy can offer cure or at
least improvement for people suffering from lactose
intolerance. I know that the answers

to

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such a question might not be clear-cut, and that
Homeopathic treatment has to be adjusted to a person's
specific physical and mental conditions. ...

Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does not
cure anything, because it does not contain anything. You
would be in a whole world of

hurt

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if you depended on it to cure anything remotely real (oh,
say, like high blood pressure, food allergies or
encephalitis). There is also a million dollar prize out
there for any homeopath who can prove it works (no one

has

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won that prize yet).

My sister has been lactose intolerant her entire life. It
is not the end

of

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the world. There are many other substitutes for milk
products (my sister likes a frozen confection called
Tofutti). There are also some

medications

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for lactose intolorance (like Lacaid, sp?).

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"Danny" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance. ,...
I wondered whether Homeopathy can offer cure or at least
improvement for people suffering from lactose
intolerance. I know that the answers to such a question
might not be clear-cut, and that Homeopathic treatment
has to be adjusted to a person's specific physical and
mental conditions. ...

Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does not
cure anything, because it does not contain anything. You
would be in a whole world of hurt if you depended on it to
cure anything remotely real (oh, say, like high blood
pressure, food allergies or encephalitis). There is also a
million dollar prize out there for any homeopath who can
prove it works (no one has won that prize yet).

My parents became lactose intolerant later in life and
started using the pills so that they could continue to
consume milk products. As far as I know, the pills (which
are over-the-counter) work fine.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I
have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance.
That is, from that point of time she practically cannot
digest milk products. Many say that this is "for life"
and that it cannot be cured. There are lactase tablets
that can be taken with meals to replace the enzyme her
body no longer produces, but that's not a real solution
to the problem, and definitely not a cure.

Has she been assessed medically? This is not my field, but
is it not somewhat unusual for lactose intolerance to
appear suddenly at this age? Make sure the diagnosis is
right first.

Peter Moran.

Thanks, Peter. The diagnosis is correct, no doubt about it.
I don't know the reason for this and I'm not familiar with
her medical history (nor would I dare ask her about it ...
:-) . The important thing is that she's now lactose
intolerant; that's a solid fact. I know that thousands of
people live with it and settle for milk substitutes etc.;
all I'm trying to do is find some way to regain her ability
to digest milk. This is just an aspect of quality of life.
And again, since conventional medicines are no good, I'm
trying to look for other ways, such as homeopathy.

I can provide a solid example from my personal experience.
When my youngest son was a few months old, he suffered from
continuous occurrences of Acute Otitis Media. Antibiotics
didn't help; we were frustrated and almost agreed to a
surgery. But then we decided to try and turn to Homeopathic
treatment (I was very skeptic at the time ...). The
Homeopathic treatment (with drops to the mouth and special
iodine-like drops for the ears) completely STOPPED the Acute
Otitis Media !!! We gave the drops regularly also to my
eldest daughter. Today she's 5 years old, and the youngest
is 3 years old; and for the last 2 and a half years they
have been TOTALLY HEALTHY (knock wood ...). This is
remarkable in my eyes.

So I thought Homeopathy might help also in the field of
lactose intolerance.

Danny

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance.
That is, from that point of time she practically
cannot digest milk products. Many say that this is
"for life" and that it cannot be cured. There are
lactase tablets that can be taken with meals to
replace the enzyme her body no longer produces, but
that's not a real solution to the problem, and
definitely not a cure.

Has she been assessed medically? This is not my field,
but is it not somewhat unusual for lactose intolerance
to appear suddenly at this age? Make sure the diagnosis
is right first.

Peter Moran.

The right answer.

I have no personal knowledge, but a friend who owns and
operates a organic dairy in Virginia mentioned the other
day, that African Americans who have a problem with lactose
intoerance, are able to drink his milk, which is organic,
non homogenized. So my thinking and his, is that it may not
be the actual milk, but something either in what is fed to
dairy cows, or the process of homogenization. Might be worth
some research.

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Thanks, Peter. The diagnosis is correct, no doubt about
it. I don't know the reason for this and I'm not familiar
with her medical history (nor would I dare ask her about
it ... :-) .

If you don;t know her medical history how are you so certain
that the diagnosis is correct??

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The important thing is that she's now lactose intolerant;
that's a solid fact. I know that thousands of people live
with it and settle for milk substitutes etc.; all I'm
trying to do is find some way to regain her ability to
digest milk. This is just an aspect of quality of life. And
again, since conventional medicines are no good, I'm trying
to look for other ways, such as homeopathy.

HOw about lactase pills that substitute the lactase that she
is missing (assuming she is really lactase insufficient)?

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I can provide a solid example from my personal experience.
When my youngest son was a few months old, he suffered from
continuous occurrences of Acute Otitis Media. Antibiotics
didn't help; we were frustrated and almost agreed to a
surgery. But then we decided to try and turn to Homeopathic
treatment (I was very skeptic at the time ...). The
Homeopathic treatment (with drops to the mouth and special
iodine-like drops for the ears) completely STOPPED the
Acute Otitis Media !!! We gave the drops regularly also to
my eldest daughter. Today she's 5 years old, and the
youngest is 3 years old; and for the last 2 and a half
years they have been TOTALLY HEALTHY (knock wood ...). This
is remarkable in my eyes.

I understand that you are completely convinced that the
homeopathic treatment is the reason why the acute otitis
media stopped. Remember that correlation does not imply
causation. Acute otitis media can spontaneously remit. It
may just be a coincidence that the otitis media remitted
right after the homeopathic treatment.

I think that it is much more likely that the reason for the
otitis media stopping is something other than the
homeopathic remedy since homeopathic remedies especially in
high dilutions have no pharmacologic activity. There is no
logical mechanism that would explain a cause and effect
phenomenon.

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So I thought Homeopathy might help also in the field of
lactose intolerance.

I think it unlikely based upon what I know about homeopathy.

Aloha,

Rich

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Danny

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hmmm.. the homeopathic remedies I have taken don't seem to
be water. The hard little pills and oil based solutions
don't taste or feel like water

to

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me. dumb dumb

They may not. But they, almost certainly, don't contain any
medicinal ingredients.

moo

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Hello !

My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago she
suddenly started to suffer from lactose intolerance.
,... I wondered whether Homeopathy can offer cure or
at least improvement for people suffering from lactose
intolerance. I know that the answers

to

Quoted message said:

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such a question might not be clear-cut, and that
Homeopathic treatment has to be adjusted to a person's
specific physical and mental conditions. ...

Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does
not cure anything, because it does not contain anything.
You would be in a whole world of

hurt

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if you depended on it to cure anything remotely real
(oh, say, like high blood pressure, food allergies or
encephalitis). There is also a

million

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dollar prize out there for any homeopath who can prove
it works (no one

has

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won that prize yet).

My sister has been lactose intolerant her entire life.
It is not the

end

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of

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the world. There are many other substitutes for milk
products (my

sister

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likes a frozen confection called Tofutti). There are
also some

medications

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for lactose intolorance (like Lacaid, sp?).

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hmmm.. the homeopathic remedies I have taken don't seem to
be water. The hard little pills and oil based solutions
don't taste or feel like water

to

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me. dumb dumb

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Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does
not cure anything, because it does not contain
anything. ...

Or maybe some other pill that was not just milk sugar...
perhaps it was a Vitamin E pill that was being sold to you
as "homeopathic". By definition homeopathic solutions have
NO active ingredients. In other words: your wallet was
lightened and you were suckered.

Yes, it is "dumb dumb" to think that homeopathy has
any worth.

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The diagnosis is correct, no doubt about it. I don't know
the reason for

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this and I'm not familiar with her medical history (nor
would I dare ask her about it ... :-) . The important
thing is that she's now lactose intolerant; that's a solid
fact. I know that thousands of people live with it and
settle for milk substitutes etc.; all I'm trying to do is
find some way to regain her ability to digest milk.

Why don't you let HER worry about it. You do not know her
medical history, let her work it out with HER physician.

This is just an aspect of quality

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of life.

Only as far as you are concerned. There are plenty of people
who have a perfectly good quality of life withOUT dairy
products. There are plenty of foods that have calcium...
plenty of dishes that taste fine without dairy products...
and there are substitutes (though one would have to watch
out for soy allergies).

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And again, since conventional medicines are no good, I'm
trying to look for other ways, such as homeopathy.

How do you know what your friend's physician is doing?

And actually conventional medicine with an actual knowledge
of how the human body works is better than homeopathy...
which is defined as "like versus like" in solutions so
diluted that there is NO molecule in the solution of the
water or solid pill:
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of life. And again, since conventional medicines are no
good, I'm trying to look for other ways, such as
homeopathy.

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Think of this... many times there are treatments that are
proposed that are called "alternative". Sometimes there is
resistence to them, but if they are tried and studied and
found to work they stop being "alternative" and become part
conventional medicine.

Homeopathy has been around for a long time... it has had
lots of time to show that it works. If it had been shown to
work it would now be part of conventional medicine. It has
not... and if someone can prove it works... well, there is
lots of cash out there for whoever does.

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hmmm.. the homeopathic remedies I have taken don't seem
to be water. The hard little pills and oil based
solutions don't taste or feel like water

to

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me. dumb dumb

They may not. But they, almost certainly, don't contain
any medicinal ingredients.

moo

Still here showing the world how bovine your thoughts are
huh? moo............ You know cows are not seen as the
brightest of critters, and you have shown once again that
you are not the brightest bulb in the row.

Sorry, but testing has proven homeopathic remedies to be
effective remedies. Even without any studies to prove (using
so called "scientific medical" techniques) some homeopathic
remedies have worked very well for me, my friends and family
members over the years. Homeopathics have saved tax payers
thousands of dollars on unnecessary operations and wasted
poisons for Doctors floundering in the dark over simple
things like ear infections and pneumonia on just my children
alone. Think of the millions of cases the chem/cut doctors
feed poisons for year because of lack of understanding of
homeopathics.

Or did your kids get tubes puncturing their eardrums? (are
you allowed to have children?)

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hmmm.. the homeopathic remedies I have taken don't seem
to be water. The hard little pills and oil based
solutions don't taste or feel like water

to

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me. dumb dumb

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...> >

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Homeopathy is just water (or a sugar pill)... it does
not cure

anything,

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because it does not contain anything. ...

Or maybe some other pill that was not just milk sugar...
perhaps it was a Vitamin E pill that was being sold to you
as "homeopathic". By definition homeopathic solutions have
NO active ingredients. In other words: your wallet was
lightened and you were suckered.

Yes, it is "dumb dumb" to think that homeopathy has
any worth.

If he gets caught he will be selling the farm without his
milk quota to.

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> Hello !
>
> My friend is 35 years old, and about 6 months ago
> she suddenly started to suffer from lactose
> intolerance. That is, from that point of time she
> practically cannot digest milk products. Many say
> that this is "for life" and that it cannot be cured.
> There are lactase tablets that can be taken with
> meals to replace the enzyme her body no longer
> produces, but that's not a real solution to the
> problem, and definitely not a cure.

Has she been assessed medically? This is not my field,
but is it not somewhat unusual for lactose intolerance
to appear suddenly at this

age?

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Make sure the diagnosis is right first.

Peter Moran.

The right answer.

I have no personal knowledge, but a friend who owns and
operates a organic dairy in Virginia mentioned the other
day, that African Americans who have a problem with
lactose intoerance, are able to drink his milk, which is
organic, non homogenized. So my thinking and his, is that
it may not be the actual milk, but something either in
what is fed to dairy cows, or the process of
homogenization. Might be worth some research.

and the point of this anti-milk post is...?

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...> The diagnosis is correct, no doubt about it. I don't
know the reason for

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this and I'm not familiar with her medical history (nor
would I dare ask her about it ... :-) . The important
thing is that she's now

lactose

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intolerant; that's a solid fact. I know that thousands
of people live

with

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it and settle for milk substitutes etc.; all I'm trying
to do is find

some

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way to regain her ability to digest milk.

Why don't you let HER worry about it. You do not know
her medical

history,

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let her work it out with HER physician.

This is just an aspect of quality

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of life.

Only as far as you are concerned. There are plenty of
people who have a perfectly good quality of life withOUT
dairy products. There are plenty

of

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foods that have calcium... plenty of dishes that taste
fine without dairy products... and there are substitutes
(though one would have to watch out for soy allergies).

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And again, since conventional medicines are no good, I'm
trying to look for other ways, such as homeopathy.

How do you know what your friend's physician is doing?

And actually conventional medicine with an actual
knowledge of how the

human

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body works is better than homeopathy... which is defined
as "like versus like" in solutions so diluted that there
is NO molecule in the solution of the water or solid pill:
bbc.co.ukhomeopathy.shtmlOpen ↗

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