Lactaid Fast Act Lactose Intolerance Relief Caplets, Lactase Enzyme to Prevent Gas, Bloating & Diarrhea Due to Lactose Sensitivity, Supplements for Travel & On-The-Go, 60 Packs of 1-ct.

Sometimes need two at once.

Nothing like randomly becoming lactose intolerant late in life. Some people get gas, and others upset stomach and yet others (like me) get violently ill and spend all night in the bathroom. Lactase/Lactaid concept: A specific enzyme changes the complex sugars in milk/cream/butter/cheese to simple sugars and you dont get ill. I tried these pills to counteract all the butter and cream in common foods so I dont get sick and they work. You have no idea how many foods we have in the US with cream and butter and cheese until you randomly become intolerant. I can completely change my eating and still cant avoid it. Actually at this point do I want to give up some of my favorites? I do eat less of these because Im aware of it now and my health feels better. But when needed I take one pill for a small amount (btw Cheetos have actual cheese.. that realization sucked), or one at start of meal and one at end if I have a dish that will cause the reaction. I keep some in my backpack for those times you order something without cheese and they forget. Happened a few days ago and it really saved me. Highly recommended.

I take one of these when I eat or drink anything milk in it, and I can even drink a large glass of milk with no symptoms. I am 60 and have never had a problem with milk in my life. One day last year I drank a huge glass of milk with cookies, and had the worst case of bloating and pain I have ever experienced. I almost went to the hospital thinking I had food poisoning. Not until several days later did we figure out it was lactose intolerance when it happened again with eating too much cheese. Now I take the pills with me and have one with the first swallow and it doesnt just reduce symptoms, but completely removes them.

This little pill allows me to eat dairy anytime I wish. A while ago I called the company wanting to know how long the pill is effective. That is, if I take a pill at noon do I need to take another pill before another dairy meal at 3 pm. The representative I spoke to did not know.

Ive been waiting for this my whole life!! Being lactose intolerant is not something I signed up for. I had no idea that this existed until I did some research on people like me that love cheese, ice cream, not so much milk, but did I say cheese?! Especially now since I go to my local farmers market every week and get the best cheeses ever!! With that being said, there is a price to pay after every delicious bite. But now….. let me tell you. This stuff really works! I had my doubts, really I did. Then I said, well, what do I have to lose? This stuff makes me feel like I can be in the same room with anyone, without feeling like something is about to burst out of my stomach!! I literally would lay in bed sometimes hoping no one would knock on my door wanting to come in to my room only to enter a room filled with extreme foul smells from the outcome of eating cheese!! Very gross, but very true! I only believe in blunt honest reviews, just to make you understand in some way where Im coming from. So if any of this relates to you, then this is something you cannot live without.

A lot of people are leaving 1 star reviews simply because they dont work. If you do some research ahead of time, you will see they just simply dont work for everyone. Its likely not the products fault, its likely you. They do work for me. The pills do, however, taste pretty bad. I guess thats why you are supposed to eat them with your first bite, to dilute the taste. I also think the instructions are lacking. I assume you are supposed to chew them, but I dont know the dairy to pill ratio. I took 4 within the first 36 hours (one with each meal), and I got severe dry mouth and headaches. Since these are literally sugar pills, I guess that would make sense. I probably just over loaded on sugar.

Cant live with lactaid because cheese is my life. Been taking the caplets a few years and absolutely hated the initial bite. So glad there is a chewable version. I bought this because the chewables were out of stock and i needed this for a trip. These are effective though. If you dont mind the taste, get these as I think they are a little cheaper.

Im posting this in case anyone else has a similar experience. It was mysterious to me but I believe Ive figure it out. I had been taking the original formulation of Lactaid, where a full dose required swallowing 3 pills before eating dairy. Thinking I could possibly save a little money, and reduce pill-swallowing, I ordered the other version, the Fast Actiing, where you take only ONE pill before each meal. These are also individually wrapped, which makes them easy to carry around, but seems like wasteful packaging to me. Within a week of starting on the single pill dose lactaid I started having severe problems and they were similar to lactose problems... bloating, diarrhea, stomach pain, terrible gas. Comparing the formulations, the active ingredient is identical, so this seemed really odd. Then I looked at the INACTIVE ingredients and they ARE very different. Turns out the inactive ingredients in BOTH formulations CAN cause stomach problems for some people (like an allergic reaction). So, I switched back and the whole thing cleared up. I can only surmise that I am allergic to one or more of the inactives in the single-pill formulation and not to the inactives in the triple-pill formulation. Im not really giving this a one star review, it probably works just fine for many people, and one pill is more convenient. But Im stuck swallowing three... and that seems to keep my lactose intolerance at bay even with a pizza meal. Thank goodness!! Good luck.

Ive found I need to use 2 at a time. When I used 1, it did not help.

Helped my daughter’s lactose intolerance