You'll Just Have Bad Gas

Usually after telling people that my son has a milk allergy their responses go something like, "Oh, I have lactose intolerance too." or " So does that mean he just can't have lactose." or some other comment that makes it very clear that they don't understand the difference between Milk Allergies and Lactose Intolerance. Lactose Intolerance is of course not a pleasant thing to have but the reality is that it can never send you into an allergic anaphylactic reaction. Most people who have Lactose Intolerance could accidently eat something with milk in it and although they will have a bad stomach ache and probably bad gas afterwards they won't possibly need to take life saving medications.
My husband and I have learned that if we say he has a life-threathening allergy to milk and therefore, we need to carry and Epipen with us where ever we go people tend to not associate my son's allergy with an intolerance and are more understanding.