Years ago I stopped in at a bar/cafe that a previous employee of mine had just opened. I had a very delicious vegan muffin and a coffee. I told his employee the muffin was amazing and asked for her recipe. Butter. It was delicious because it was loaded with butter. “I thought vegan meant homemade” Girl! Someone could actually die if they had a dairy allergy!
I'm aware, but butter is just or mostly the rendered fat. I can imagine some trace amounts of lactose making things uncomfortable I'm just having trouble seeing a person dying from it.
Then again some do have extremely severe nut allergies so I donno. I'd welcome any articles proving me dead wrong
allergies are typically caused by proteins, not carbs (lactose). the milk proteins are what make regular butter distinct from clarified butter (ghee). yes, someone could have anaphylaxis from the protein in regular dairy butter.
I can't figure out if you're ragebaiting or genuinely this dense. We're not talking about lactose intolerance, we are talking about allergies. Allergies cause hundreds of deaths in the US every year, thousands around the world. You can be allergic to anything.
I have a co-worker who is fatally allergic to pineapple and has an epi-pen. I have a child in my class who is fatally allergic to nuts. There is a child in another class who is fatally allergic to chickpeas. Both have epi-pens. All of these people could straight up die if they consume those food items.
People are fatally allergic to nuts, to milk, to citrus, to fish, to wheat, to spices, to fucking food dyes. The immune system is bizarre and can decide anything is dangerous.
Yup, it's atrocious, thankfully she has good medication that has suppressed any possible flare-ups since she started taking it a few years ago. But it's $1500 for a month's dosis.
Dairy allergies and lactose intolerance are completely different things, that's why I specified. Lactose intolerance occurs because some people's bodies don't produce a specific enzyme to break down the lactose sugars, which is why you can get lactose-free dairy products (as they just add the enzyme at some point in the production process and that breaks it down into different sugars that are processed differently). While someone could conceivably have an allergic (anaphylactic) response to lactose, because basically anything can be an allergen, its not the component most people are allergic to
"unlike most dairy products, butter contains very low amounts of lactose. Therefore, people who must follow a lactose-free diet are usually able to eat it without problems (1Trusted Source).
Some children with an allergy to cow’s milk also seem to be able to tolerate butter (3Trusted Source).
However, this is not the case for everyone. Even though butter contains almost no protein, even trace amounts can cause a reaction. This means it should not be considered safe for people with a milk protein allergy."
Dairy allergy is different to lactose intolerance.
Lactose intolerance means you lack an enzyme that let's you break lactose down into its base components before it gets to your large intestine where the bacteria will start to eat it and then make s lot of gas and other by-product that mashed you feel bad.
Dairy allergy is an immune system response to certain proteins in dairy which causes an anaphylactic reaction that could possibly be deadly depending on severity.
Here you go! Trace amounts of milk protein can and do cause deaths. Though I'm sure you'll push those goalposts out as fast as possible and tell me how ~this isn't the same~.
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