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Milk Allergy
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Also known as: cow's milk allergy · allergy to milk · milk protein allergy · lactose intolerance colloquial · reaction to milk · milk intolerance · dairy allergy · milk protein hypersensitivity · casein allergy · milk sugar allergy · milk allergy
Your Body Is Speaking
Milk — the first food of your life. Before you could eat solid food, before you could speak, grasp, or walk, you nourished yourself on milk. It was your sole source of life. Not just any food, but a food that flowed directly from another body into yours. Every meal meant closeness, warmth, skin, scent, voice at the same time. Eating and being held were one and the same.
When your body decades later reacts to dairy products — to yoghurt, cheese, cream, quark, butter, the entire family of milk-derived foods — it is not only reacting to a protein or a sugar. It is reacting to an entire early experience stored in its memory. To the theme that always stands behind milk: being nourished. Being accepted. Being provided for by someone larger than you.
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