A2 milk products and casein allergy

[PattyG]

Has anyone who is casein intolerant tried A2 milk? I apologize if this has been discussed before but I couldn’t find anything when “searched”. My cousin with celiac can’t have casein. I’ve been dairy free for many yrs but got excited when she said she puts A2 milk in coffee. I tried A2 yogurt one day and did fine. Next day I overindulged and following morning had diarrhea (only once) but had terrible congestion, phlegm, coughing and fatigue, which has lasted 4 days (no diarrhea). Feels like an infection. Am wondering if I caught a cold or have environmental allergies OR if it’s the dairy. After feeling better, I’ll wait a few wks and try eating it again but wondered if anyone else experienced this. If so, I might skip trying again. Thanks in advance!

[tex]

While a few individuals might manage to squeak by with minimal symptoms, the lion's share of us who are sensitive to casein are also sensitive to products made from the milk of livestock that produce milk that contains predominantly A2 beta casein. The reason for that is that it often (typically) takes only a few molecules of a protein to which we are sensitive, to cause us to react. There is no such thing as a cow (or any other mammal capable of producing milk on a commercial scale) that produces milk that contains only pure A2 beta casein. They all produce milk that contains at least a small percentage of A1 beta casein, and the milk from most of them contains a significant amount of A1 beta casein.

When I Did a search of the database I came up with a number of posts that addressed this issue. Here's a response to a question posted in 2012 by my niece (who also has MC) that discusses the A2 beta casein issue:

viewtopic.php?p=129595&hilit=A2+beta+casein#p129595

And here are a few more related responses made at various times:

viewtopic.php?p=172989&hilit=A2+beta+casein#p172989

viewtopic.php?p=167150&hilit=A2+beta+casein#p167150

viewtopic.php?p=161327&hilit=A2+beta+casein#p161327

viewtopic.php?p=136020&hilit=A2+beta+casein#p136020

Incidentally, if you haven't already done so, you might try downloading our new smartphone app. When I asked the AI Search Assistant "is A2 milk safe for someone sensitive to casein?), It gave me a long,detailed, very thorough (and very accurate) list of responses that it found in the database.

I hope this helps.

Tex