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Okay, ISOT: yogurt, Diet Board only, no time limit. I found a handful of post's by ecmmbm, but the only one that seemed relevant was this one and it doesn't really go into any detail. (I assume the post you're talking about is on another Board, but I just wasn't up to doing a Search for "yogurt" on the Recipe Board - I was afraid I'd be buried in hits.)

So I did a Google search on yogurt+lactose. What I got out of the quick reading I did was that yogurt usually doesn't have much lactose. I also found an article that said yogurt may actually be good for people who are lactose intolerant since the bacteria in yogurt actually digest lactose.

I still think I'd take the Lactaid. The Web articles used words like "usually" and "much", so I'd always worry there was a little lactose left. And, like you, I don't know of anything to take that can neutralize the IBS problems caused by dairy proteins like whey and casein. Given that, if I were going to do something as IBS-icidal for me as eating yogurt, I'd want to make absolutely certain I didn't have to worry about the lactose at all - the proteins would be more than enough to deal with.

And please don't ever worry about contradicting me. How else will I learn I'm mistaken? Or as someone (Mark Twain? Josh Billings?) said (roughly): It's not what a man doesn't know that makes him a damn fool. It's what he does know that just ain't so.

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