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Gender: Male Female

Age:______

What is your ethnic background?:___________________________
(ie. Caucasian, Native American etc.)

1. Do you or anyone in your family have lactose intolerance?
Yes No

2. How intolerant are you/ they?
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Not Very Moderate Very Intolerant

3. Are there any milk products you/they can eat?
Yes No
a. If yes, which ones:___________

4. Are labels useful in finding out if there are any ingredients that could cause symptoms of lactose intolerance?
a. I don?t look at labels
b. I can never tell which ones will cause symptoms
c. They are normally helpful
d. I don?t shop

5. Is it hard for you/them to find substitutes for milk products?
a. Very hard
b. Not really
c. I don?t substitute products
d. It?s easy

6. How much dairy do you/they consume daily?___________________
(ie. 1 glass of milk + yogurt =2 servings)

7. How do you/they deal with lactose intolerance?
a. Substitute Soy Products
b. Lactase Pills
c. Cut out dairy completely
d. Eat only little amounts of dairy


8. Is your/their family affected in any way by your/their lactose intolerance?
Yes No
a. If yes, how:_________________________________

9. What is the hardest thing in your opinion about having lactose intolerance?
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________________________________________________________________________________
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10. At what age did you/they discover that you/they were lactose intolerant?:
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Gender: Female

Age: 39

What is your ethnic background?: European - Mediterranean
(ie. Caucasian, Native American etc.)

1. Do you or anyone in your family have lactose intolerance?
Yes I am lactose intolerant

2. How intolerant are you/ they?
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Very Intolerant

3. Are there any milk products you/they can eat?
Yes
a. If yes, which ones: Skim milk yoghurt, unhomogenised and organic skim milk, sheeps milk cheeses (feta and yellow cheeses), flavoured yoghurt ice-cream, some chocolate, but prefer dark chocolate - with no milk

4. Are labels useful in finding out if there are any ingredients that could cause symptoms of lactose intolerance?
c. They are normally helpful


5. Is it hard for you/them to find substitutes for milk products?
a. Very hard

6. How much dairy do you/they consume daily? sometimes the correct servings, but mostly less
(ie. 1 glass of milk + yogurt =2 servings)

7. How do you/they deal with lactose intolerance?
d. Eat only little amounts of dairy


8. Is your family affected in any way by your lactose intolerance?
No, because my family cooks mostly with olive oil, even though they eat all dairy products themselves


9. What is the hardest thing in your opinion about having lactose intolerance?
Not being able to eat the desserts everyone else can have, cos I would throw up if I tried to eat them!! Having to ask a million and one questions at restaurants about what is in the food and being perceived as being a "pain" and being "picky", when its not my preference to be lactose intolerant.

10. At what age did you/they discover that you/they were lactose intolerant?:
Unofficially, as a baby when I kept refusing milk and milk products, but officially in my 20's when I had an allergy blood test done to test what foods I was allergic to!!