I haven’t followed through on writing anything recently, not in the mood, personal reasons, the whole gamut of boring excuses. Oh, busy too :P

So I have only this retarded little nugget that I came up with last night, during a musing kinda with a friend on the lack of enzymes that so defines the Asian peoples, that first of all, do women get lactose intolerant? Does breast milk contain lactose? And of course, the capstone question, do women get allergic reactions to their own lactation?

Well…
So women do get lactose intolerant. I don’t know any lactose intolerant women. Secondly, yes, breast milk contains lactose, all mammals have lactose as a key ingredient in milk.
But do women get allergic reactions to their own lactation?
This was less clear, and I couldn’t find an immediate answer, but the sense I’m getting is that the answer is no. I’m not particularly sure why this is so. Perhaps the allergen needs to be in the bloodstream, like bee sting venoms, or peanut oil entering through the nose or other membranes that allow the allergen to pass through? Which would certainly work, since I did find out that lactose is produced independantly in a woman during lactation, and is not affected by lactose intake, which is still amplified though. Oddly contradictory.