Reading the thread about the movie theatres made me wonder... Do people with a lactose intolerance react to lactitol with the same symptoms? Are portion controlled amounts of maltitol, perhaps, easier than lactitol on folks with a lactose intolerance? I'm curious because several years ago I developed an intolerance to milk products and then it seemed go away when I went to soy milk for all my milk uses and only occasionally would seldom have other dairy products. At that point I could handle them without symptoms. Now I've gone LC and am still using soy quite a bit but have gone to real cream and butter quite frequently. If lactitol causes problems with lactose intolerance people then maybe I should be being careful with my use of it or at least not have it in close proximity to other lactose containing products. Annie