Digestive Advantage Daily Dietary Management of Lactose Intolerance for Children, Chewable Tablets, Cherry Flavored, 30-Count Boxes (Pack of 3)

by Digestive Advantage

Product Features

• Lactose intolerance management capsules
• Specifically designed just for children
• Helps eliminate pain, cramps, gas, bloating, diarrhea and constipation symptoms

Product Description

All the dairy they want, all day, with just one chewable tablet daily! Feel the advantage! Cherry flavored tablets. Ages 3+. Only one per day! 24-hour relief. Once daily usage of Digestive Advantage for Lactose Intolerance allows children to eat dairy pro

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B001G7QLBS
• UPC: 815066001515
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,775 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #7 in Health & Personal Care > Health Care > Digestion & Nausea > Lactose Intolerance

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps my 5 year old eat with friends and better enjoy social meals, March 1, 2009

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K. Levin (Oregon & Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digestive Advantage Daily Dietary Management of Lactose Intolerance for Children, Chewable Tablets, Cherry Flavored, 30-Count Boxes (Pack of 3) (Health and Beauty)

My 5 year old son has never been able to comfortably consume milk products. Without going into ugly details, let's just say he has painful and otherwise unpleasant digestive consequences when he takes in more than a little lactose. (He could eat butter like a normal person, and up to 1/2 a cup of yogurt every other day, but never any straight milk.)

This was inconvenient for me as dairy foods are quick and easy to prepare, but not a very big deal when he was young and staying home with me, or even during preschool when we sent a packed snack each day from home. Starting kindergarten this year changed all that. Snack is provided as part of his kindergarten class with all the children helping in the preparation and serving. Suddenly, it was very obvious to my sensitive little boy that he was being "deprived" of something nice that other children enjoy. Also, being old enough for playdates and attending birthday parties without Mommy's watchful presence means my son is called upon to evaluate food choices far more often than before.

I discussed lactose enzyme products with our pediatrician, who had no objection to their use.

When I went shopping for the actual lactase enzyme products, I found this Digestive Advantage Children's Lactose Intolerance Therapy. The ability to give my son one dose every morning instead of asking his school to administer a "medication" (the usual type of lactase enzyme pill) was VERY attractive to me. I'd prefer no one but myself to give my children any kind of medication--not even vitamins, etc.--so I know precisely what has been taken or not.

I am also convinced of the value of probiotics (good bacteria, such as found in yogurt) for most people. That's one of the reasons I've given my lactose-intolerant son some yogurt over the years, even though I've had to very carefully watch the "dose" I allow him. I've tried using a powdered formula for him, but it was very inconvenient for me to remember and mix into his food. I'm very happy with the formulation of this product.

Finally, I expected this product to relieve my son's occasional diarrhea from over-doing lactose-containing foods. What surprised me was the sudden relief he's experienced from a periodic (2-4 times per week) sudden stomach pain that the pediatrician had diagnosed as gas and/or constipation. I now believe that even the small amounts of lactose I'd been allowing may have been too much, or perhaps the probiotics in these tablets are simply improving his digestion in a comprehensive way. Obviously, as a mom, I'm thrilled to have my son feeling better (physically) as well as so happy to be able to share snacks and birthday cake with his friends.

We've used up on package (28 days since you take two tablets on the first and second day) and found almost total relief (one episode of unexplained tummy pain during the first week) so far.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tastes good, works well!, January 22, 2007

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Heather Petit "hedracita" (Newark, DE United States) - See all my reviews
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This was the first product for lactose intolerance I found that my younger son would tolerate. It tastes good (like 'smarties' candy), chews easily, and does seem to work just fine. My son is very intolerant, so takes one daily and an additional one if he has more than 1 serving of dairy that day.

My older son (also intolerant) has converted to using these as well. They cost more than the ubiquitous lactaid/b-galactose products, but it is worth not having to pressure the older son into chewing a pill that doesn't taste all that great.

No fructose, mannitol, or sorbitol, either, which is ideal since my younger son can't tolerate those sugars/sweeteners, either.

Doesn't specify the probiotic(s) involved, but I would guess that it includes one of the strains that produces lactase enzyme itself, at least.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ~*~*~MY EXTREMELY LACTOSE INTOLERANT 1 YEAR OLD CAN FINALLY HAVE DAIRY~TASTES YUMMY~*~*~, December 9, 2009

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Mommy of Cuties M & Z "Mom of Twins" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digestive Advantage Daily Dietary Management of Lactose Intolerance for Children, Chewable Tablets, Cherry Flavored, 30-Count Boxes (Pack of 3) (Health and Beauty)

When my twins turned 1 their Pediatrician said we could switch them to Whole Milk. I asked our Dr if I could give Zoey this product even though it said age 3 and up. He said it was fine to give her, that you can't overdose, it is only age 3 & up because it is a pill so just to crush it up for her. So I ordered this and started giving her Soy milk till it arrived.

It arrived on a Wednesday and I gave her 2 pills that day & Thursday per the instructions. On Friday I gave her 1 pill and that night I gave her a 10oz bottle with 1/2 soy & 1/2 whole milk. No diarrhea overnight or the next day. On Saturday I gave her whole milk w/ a little soy in the morning, cheese & a little fudge made w/ milk, ice cream & a 10oz whole milk bottle before bed. It is now Wednesday and we've given her whole milk morning, day & night as well as milk based food(mac & cheese, etc) and she has not once had diarrhea. She had a been a little constipated before I started giving her this medicine and stayed a bit constipated but she finally went poo today and it was pretty normal, a little hard. She just needs to eat more fiber because she refuses to drink juice.

Zoey is EXTREMELY Lactose Intolerant. She could not tolerate anything that had the slightest hint of milk in it. She couldn't handle cheese, yogurt, nothing. Even some of her babyfood had milk WAY down on the list of ingredients and if I split a 4oz jar between my girls, Zoey would have lots of diarrhea within 1-2 hours after eating it, sometimes sooner. Anytime she had any dairy, she had diarrhea and normally would have diarrhea several times after the initial feeding of dairy.

I put this pill on a paper plate and use the back of a spoon to crush it into a fine powder. Then I get the tip of my finger wet, dip it in the powder then put it in her mouth. I do this until all of it is gone. It tastes like a Fun Dip or Pixie Stick, it is very good, she loves it.

Thanks to this product I can finally feed my girls anything with Dairy. Before this, besides whole milk, I only fed them things w/out dairy because I didn't want to feed one of my daughters ice cream or things if the other couldn't eat it. And I was buying soy cheese which is a LOT more expensive than regular but now I can buy them regular cheese. This makes my job of making them things to eat a lot easier too because there are so many things that have milk in them or need milk and I am no longer reading every label before I make something.

I will update if Zoey starts having diarrhea or any problems.