Cheese

[freak_unique]

Whenever i eat a fair bit of cheese i seem to get really bad heartburn to the extent it is so unbearable i have to inhale deeply to stop the burning in my chest as it feels like my chest is on fire and its quite worrying. Im pretty sure its when i eat dairy...could this be some kind of dairy intolerance or anything? And does anyone else get anything similar?
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[Goodsoulette]

Dairy has high fat content and that will cause the heartburn/reflux. I have always had a dairy allergy but it makes me vomit, and if it gets on my skin brings me out in a rash. I would cut out the cheese, and make sure you drink lower fat milk. Zantac is brilliant for heartburn, can clear it up for a day or 2. Bizarrely I find sipping really cold milk can also help relieve the symptoms.

[freak_unique]

cheers for that. Do you think it couldbe an allergy? what i dont understand is i have been told milk can help the heartburn but how come it can when cheese irritates it so much and its pretty much the same ish substance?
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[Goodsoulette]

know, I dont think alergies cause heartburn, but i do know that high fat contane food does. Sipping milk helps calm the burning sensation but in the long run doen no good. Knock the cheese on the head. You will probably find that lots of other fatty food might cause this in the long run. Best to avoid it though, else you'll end up with an ulcer.

[freak_unique]

Yeah i do find that when ive ate greasey foods it also happens so i guess its probably just that then... but i will try cut out cheese the only problem is im addicted to cheese strings hehe!

[Goodsoulette]

Processed cheese is the worst. Despite dairy making me puke and rashes and stuff, I do give in and have found that processed cheese gives me massive migraines, nothing good in them to cause that. Leave them alone. Cottagte cheese is low fat by the way.

[freak_unique]

Yeah i love cottage cheese...hmm maybe could be the cheese strings that are doing it then? as i find when i have things like lasagnes etc it seems to be fine its confusing though i doubt it calls for concern enough to go to the doctors though

[Goodsoulette]

If your heartburn is bad enough and frequent enough you can always get your antacid on prescription, I would really go with zantac if you need to take something, but obviously stopping it from happening first will be best.

[pinkspangle]

I suffer from a similar thing, and i have finally put it down to eating cheese. If i eat it quite late at night say after a meal out or with friends, and i go bed straight afterwards, within a couple of hours of lying down the heartburn is unbearable and i find it lasts for days afterwards. But this only happens when i eat cheese. I am ok with other dairy products. I find hot tea with a teaspoon of sugar really helps to cool the burning. Why are all nice things so bad for us, life is so unfair. Its probably not helped by the fact i have usually had a few glasses of wine too... so maybe i shouldn't moan!!xxx

[Catso]

Although it could be all the things as mentioned above, yes, it could be an allergy. I have an allergy to our local milkman's milk - gives me dreadful heartburn, even after just a couple of cups of tea. But, I don't suffer when I have organic milk, nor from many other sources of milk. It's most odd, I know! Occasionally, some cheese will affect me, but by-and-large, cheese seems OK.

It might be something used in cheese manufacture, not the dairy product itself EG rennet(?)

So, try some other sorts of cheese, including organic.

[freak_unique]

Cheers for all your answers very helpful indeed :)