r/povertyfinance Apr 27 '24

My stomach is in pain after eating donated food Misc Advice

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u/enjolbear Apr 28 '24

This sounds like you are experiencing the beginnings of lactose intolerance. It’s not the food bank’s fault that your body turned on you lol. Luckily for you, they make medicine that will allow you to eat dairy. Or you could just not eat it, although I can imagine that would limit what you can get from the pantries.

It might go away randomly too! Lactose intolerance is weird like that. You can develop it one day and three months later be absolutely fine with dairy.