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| According to the Swiss Celiac Disease Patients Organisation, milk doesn't contain gluten. And the Swiss retailer Coop has its entire milk palette on the gluten free products list (1, 2)
I fear you have to "get medical" and figure out which substance causes the allergies, or the answers here won't be of much use.
Here is some (German) information about lactose intolerance from the Swiss milk industry. The milk products contain different amounts of lactose.
None: hard cheese, specially treated milk
Traces: half-hard and soft cheese, specially treated yoghurt
Usually tolerated: yoghurt, curdled milk
Borderline: butter, cream
Considerable: cream cheese
Usually problematic: milk, buttermilk, whey | |
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thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. i do not wish to offend anyone but both our pediatric gi doctor and ourselves (both doctors) have done a lot of research into this and know that their problem lies with gluten rather than milk (casein/lactose) so we are not at a loss as to what is wrong - they are celiac.
while milk is often considered naturally gluten free in europe (who go by the historical and incorrect WHO levels of safe gluten - the WHO are revising them as they are known to be incorrect!) it is not in the US who have much stricter regulations. it is known for example that the level of 200ppm allowed in europe is sufficient to make many sensitive celiacs sick. in both the UK and US it is possible to buy gluten-free milk and other dairy products which my girls can have fine. if milk did not contain gluten - why would they sell these???