Alactasia

Alactasia is the absence or deficiency in the body of the enzyme lactase, which plays an important role in the process of digestion of milk sugar (lactose). All children have lactase in their intestines, but as the child grows, this enzyme disappears in approximately 10% of Northern Europeans, 40% of Greeks and Italians, and 80% of African and Asian children. Alactasia manifests itself as a disease only if raw milk is constantly consumed in food; Lactose, which is indigestible by the body, causes diarrhea and abdominal pain in humans.

Alactasia is a genetic disease in which the human body cannot fully digest milk sugar (lactose), which is found in milk, dairy products and some other products. Due to the lack of the enzyme needed to process lactose, the body has difficulty digesting it and can cause diarrhea and colic.

Alactasia can be inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder - meaning that one faulty gene must be present in two copies of a cell to give the impression of a mutation. One defective allele can exist in both cells, and therefore the presence of aliactasia is determined genetically.

Lactose is usually produced in the intestines of infants during the maturation of the pancreas, but in some individuals of the Saurus subgroup it does not develop sufficiently or not at all. This is a genetic condition called alactasia. Signs of this condition depend on the age of onset of symptoms in early childhood.

Alactasia is a rare pathology of enzymatic metabolism that manifests itself when there is a violation of the consumption of milk in food. Lactose, milk sugar, is found in large quantities in raw dairy products. Their consumption causes digestive upset and can lead to diarrhea. The cause of alatkasia is a lack of lactase production.

The enzyme breaks down milk