Last update June 19, 2025
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Lactase. Tilactase. β-Galactosidase since it is relatively safe.
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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e-lactancia is a resource recommended by AELAMA of Spain
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Enzyme which is composed by more than 1.000 amino acids that hydrolyzes Lactose into Glucose and Galactose. It is produced in larger quantity by intestinal cells of newborns and infants than older children and adults, in order to digest the milk sugar or Lactose. Depending on type of populations, only 30 to 70% of individuals can continue producing intestinal lactose in later ages. (Krüttli 2014, Bersaglieri 2004, Royer 1978)
At latest update information was not found on excretion into breast milk, but, because it's proteic nature it would be digested before absorption, all that along with a high molecular weight makes excretion intro breast milk highly unlikely.
In addition, it is not toxic since it has been used, with no effectiveness, for treatment of colicky pain in infants without side-effects reported. (Hall 2012, Critch 2011)