Description of lactose intolerance Lactose intolerance is a partial or complete inability of the digestive tract to process lactose – a milk sugar. The human digestive tract is not able to absorb lactose, but can be split into smaller sections…
Description of celiac disease Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disease of the small intestine, which is sensitive to the mixture of proteins calledgluten or gluten (hence one of the names of the disease – gluten-sensitive enteropathy). Gluten is primarily…