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Is it okay to drink or eat goat or sheeps milk products if I am cows milk protein sensitive?

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Is it okay to drink or eat goat or sheeps milk products if I am cows milk protein sensitive?

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The main difference between the milk of cow’s versus that of these smaller animals is the percent protein content, being smaller in the smaller animals (because the newborns do not have to grow as large as fast as calves grow to become cows; human milk is even lower in protein relative to these animals). Thus, to consume products made from goats or sheep is really to consume less of the protein. I believe this is why these alternative milk products tend to be less antigenic than cow’s milk protein. Another potential reason is that goat’s and sheep milk are consumed infrequently, and hence established immune reactions are rare at the time they are introduced to replace cow’s milk. However, less antigenic is not “not antigenic.” They are still foreign proteins to the human body capable of, and often, stimulating immune reactions in the intestine and body. It is like this from my perspective: mammals (mammary animals) are supposed to suckle and drink their mother’s milk until weaning, whe

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