Lactase deficiency is a rare disease.The main symptoms of which are increased gas formation, insufficient weight gain of the child, frothy stools, rejection of the chest, abdominal pain. Every woman realizes that mother's milk is the perfect food for her baby. However, if your baby has been diagnosed with the above-mentioned diagnosis, there are only two options: either the use of enzyme therapy with breastfeeding, or a lactose-free mixture, because the cause of the disease is the lack of enzymes in the baby’s intestines, which are necessary for the breakdown of milk sugar - lactose.
Различают врожденную и приобретенную лактазную failure. In the second case, the cause is an inflammatory process or an intestinal infection that occurs with complications. Partial decrease in the production of enzymes is called hypolactasia. In this case, the doctor recommends the use of adapted low-lactose mixtures. As you recover, the low-lactic mixture is replaced with the usual one adapted. If a relapse occurs, and the production of enzymes in the intestine is sharply reduced again, then a lactose-free mixture is introduced. It is therapeutic and in no case should not be appointed by parents on their own. Even in the case of lactase deficiency, the pediatrician prescribes a strictly individual nutritional plan for a particular child, because lactose has an important role in the development of the baby’s body.
What is the difference lactose free from the usual?
Maternal milk is the standard to whichmanufacturers are trying to approach the adapted mixtures. The vast majority of them are made on the basis of the milk of farm animals — cows or goats. It reduces the content of casein, salts and proteins. Along with this, milk is enriched with vitamins, minerals and trace elements necessary for man, that is, it is adapted. Lactose-free and low-lactose mixtures, in turn, should not contain cow's milk - it is completely replaced by soy. Minerals and vitamins are also added.
How is a lactose free mixture introduced?
The main rule of transition is its phasing, becausea sharp decrease in lactose in the daily diet of the baby is fraught with constipation. The pediatrician and parents must control the manifestations of allergies, stools, weight gain, and the overall well-being of the infant.
Which mixture to choose? What does the Russian market offer us?
Undoubtedly, the choice of adapted mixturesmuch wider than the range of lactose-free and low-lactose mixtures. However, the largest manufacturers did not disregard the kids with such a problem and released their food options for children of different ages. The most famous mixtures - "NAN" and "Nutrilon" - are available in lactose-free and low-lactose form, too. Also on the market there are such mixtures and other, less well-known manufacturers: "Mameks", "Nutrilak", "Friso". Infant formula NAN is produced by Nestlé, Nutrilon - by the Dutch firm Nutricia. All lactose-free mixtures can be purchased at almost any pharmacy or supermarket, as well as in children's specialty stores.
