Does pasteurization change milk chemically?

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I buy raw milk for our use. A couple of weeks ago I couldn't get there to get it so I bought a gallon of store milk instead (one day's supply). My 10 year old vomited for two days. I wasn't sure if it was the store milk or something else so last week I tried it again. Same thing happened. Does anyone know why? Also, I am allergic to store milk, but not raw milk. I assume it is for the same reason.

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 23, 2002

Answers

Are you perhaps buying raw goat milk rather than raw cow milk? I have been told some people who are intolerant to cow milk can drink goat milk with no problems. Local groceries stock canned goat milk.

-- Ken W. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), April 24, 2002.

Pasteurization does change milk. I don't know if the change would be classified as "chemically" or not.

Take a look at these websites.

realmilk.org

rawmilk.com

-- R. (thor610@yahoo.com), April 24, 2002.


Wow, that explains alot! The child that vomited is the same one that has such a problem with ADHD. He has been thrown out of school several times for his behavior, which is why I homeschool. Also, some of my kids and I have asthma. I am just stunned. Thank you for the information.

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 24, 2002.

An above post listed the www.realmilk.com site, it is very interesting reading. We have friends who can get our milk and drink it, but is lactose intolerent with store bought. The enzymes are important. Raw milk does a body good.....

-- Suzanne (weir@frontiernet.net), April 24, 2002.

Hi Gayle..I do not know about all Walmarts..but ours carries goat milk in their dairy department. Comes in a carton just like cows milk! Our HyVee store also carries it! Good luck..

-- Sher (riverdobbers@webtv.net), April 24, 2002.


Our government and state health departments have done us a horrible misdeed in trying to prevent us from consuming raw milk.

I live in Austin and am trying to get into a new cow-sharing program that will allow us to consume our own raw milk illegally.

-- Rick#7 (rick7@postmark.net), April 24, 2002.


Gayle,

My husband is lactose intolerant and is fine when he drinks our own goat milk. When our goats were dry, I bought a carton of Meyerberg goat milk from the grocery store and it bothered his stomach. So, he sticks with Lactaid milk when we have to buy it.

Lactose intolerance is different that a milk allergy.

-- Charleen Satkowski (harperhill@eznet.net), April 24, 2002.


I used to raise goats, but got rid of them because they were a pain in the neck. I could drink their milk, if I could catch them. WalMart is too far for me to go more than once a month. I can drink raw cow's milk and it doesn't bother me at all. Its just the pasteurized milk that does.It causes me to have asthma attacks. I suspect pasteurized goat's milk would have the same effect.

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 24, 2002.

I think the ".com" and ".org" on those two websites are reversed. Should be www.realmilk.com and www. rawmilk.org.

-- Christina (introibo2000@yahoo.com), April 24, 2002.

I believe the initial emphasis behind pasteurization was to prevent the spread of tuberculosis from dairy cattle to humans. However, now commercial dairies have to have their milk cows tested regularly for it. Recently saw part of a program which mentioned about 90% of the tuberculosis found in Canada is in immigrants who likely got it from drinking milk from tuberculosis-infected cows. While I sincerely doubt the government would back off of pasteurization, a case could seem to be made for allowing off-the-farm sales of raw milk from tuberculosis-tested free cows. I wouldn’t recommend buying raw milk from someone unless they could document their milkers were certified tuberculosis-free.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), April 28, 2002.


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