Fiancée thought she had lactose intolerance, told she had since a young age. She cut out dairy for more than a year and then accidentally ingested some. Turns out it was an allergy and she had to go to the hospital.

But you just compared them

This is the real difference.

One is an allergy hypersensitivity that triggers the release of histamine that (in this scenario) closes the throat and causes the person to die.

The other is a lack of an enzyme in the stomach to break down a specific component, so instead bacteria break it down. When they break it down, gas is released, which causes the stomach to be irritated.

So one is your throat literally trying to kill you, vs your stomach being irritated (possibly very bad). Not downplaying lactose intolerance, but its not the same as a type 1 hypersensitivity

Edit - as pointed out, most the stuff for lactose intolerance happens in the intestines not the stomach

My ex-roommate was like that.

There were not enough windows to open in that place we lived in. Not nearly enough.

Milk I'm fine on, but even if I didn't have LI I'd prefer Oat, it's ice cream that gets me - trust me, I've tried em all, nothing dairy free compares to a pint of Ben n Jerry's (yes, not even their own dairy free stuff)

nice!

Carpe Kasem: Seize the ground and the stars.

Seize the means of cheese production!

As someone that eats a moderate amount of dairy despite being lactose intolerant, my intolerance has gotten much worse with age.

I was lactose intolerant as a baby. Grew out of it and ate cheese all the time. Then at 28 I was suddenly lactose intolerant again. Still eat cheese all the time but I just keep lactaid on me.

When I was a kid, I was diagnosed as being lactose intolerant as well. The thing is, I'm not lactose intolerant at all. I'm actually gluten intolerant. It's very hard to diagnose without cutting gluten out of one's diet. And I only figured out because I started making bread a few times each week and got very sick.

The thing is, I always used to think I'd outgrown my lactose intolerance, too. If you have the time, maybe give a gluten free diet a try. My life is so much different now after cutting out gluten. At one point I was going to the gym for 2 hours a day, trying to lose weight, but I just couldn't. Now, I'm the skinniest I've been in years and I mostly sit around.

Unfortunately, the diet really does have to be totally gluten free. Even cross contamination will give me noticable problems for days. The body basically cripples its ability to intake nutrients after having any amount of gluten and it takes time to heal. On the bright side, it's a pretty easy diet to follow when eating at home and a lot of restaurants now have gluten free options, too.

It really makes you think

Absolutely agree with your point. But as someone who's (granted, pretty severely) lactose intolerant, I most definitely wouldn't call it Disneyland lol

Plenty of cheese are lactose-free. It is destroyed during the fermentation.

Wait.... your version of lactose intolerance is you get "stopped up"?!? My version is dairy-based Draino pressure washing the bowl in brown noisomeness.

...And leave the room.