Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 78-year-old retired medical oncologist. While in residency in New York, I got a gastrointestinal virus that left me with lactose intolerance. After a while, it improved somewhat.

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Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 78-year-old retired medical oncologist. While in residency in New York, I got a gastrointestinal virus that left me with lactose intolerance. After a while, it improved somewhat.

Here, a gastroenterologist and an allergist share the difference between dairy allergy symptoms and lactose intolerance symptoms. According to Dr. Parikh, those afflicted with a dairy allergy ...

People develop lactose intolerance when their bodies don’t make enough of the enzyme lactase for the amount of dairy they consume, says Dr. Christopher Schmoyer, an assistant professor of ...

Some people experience stomach pain specifically after drinking milk, and most of them are likely lactose intolerant. People who lack the enzyme lactase, which breaks down lactose found in milk, may ...

Diarrhea that develops after you eat lunch meat may be related to one of several health issues, such as a food allergy or intolerance, immune dysfunction, or even food poisoning. Lunch meats are often ...