Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Is dairy never ok, even small amounts?

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Usual disclaimer for anyone who hasn't seen my other posts... I'm new here!

I have been assumming that it isn't the dairy in my diet that is causing IBS symptoms, but there's so much anti-dairy info/advice on this site and in Heather's book(s) that I realise maybe I'm missing something.

Since pretty much forever, I've eaten cereal (Special K kind, cornflakes, or similiar... plain stuff!) with semi-skimmed milk for breakfast. Since finding out about IBS, I've stopped drinking a cup of coffee (with milk) at breakfast (that was the only cup I used to drink per day), and swapped it for tea (with milk). I also started eating an Activa yoghurt before my cereal.
Other than this, recently (1-2 months) there's been very little other dairy in my diet.

I assumed that it wasn't what I was eating at breakfast that was causing me IBS symptoms, because my "attacks" were either first thing in the morning before I ate anything, or not until mid-afternoon, starting straight after eating my lunch. I.e. for the whole morning I was - and still am - pretty much always "ok".

So, here's my question- is there some kind of delayed effect with the dairy I'm eating? Generally in fact, can foods you eat at one time in the day affect you much later on, or even the next day??

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