Daily Archives: August 18, 2024

Boosting Your Milk Supply: Ensuring Adequate Breastfeeding and Baby’s Needs

Will You Make Enough Milk to Breastfeed? The first few days after birth, your breasts make an ideal “first milk” called colostrum. There’s not a lot of it, but there’s plenty to meet your baby’s nutritional needs. Colostrum helps a newborn’s digestive tract develop and prepare itself to digest breast milk. Colostrum is the first…

Lactose Intolerance։ Types, Risk Factors, and Underlying Causes

Lactose intolerance occurs when your small intestine doesn’t produce enough of an enzyme (lactase) to digest milk sugar (lactose). Normally, lactase turns milk sugar into two simple sugars — glucose and galactose — which are absorbed into the bloodstream through the intestinal lining. If you’re lactase deficient, lactose in your food moves into the colon…