Eating Abroad
It is added as a preservative, sweetener, to increase alcohol content of lager, a filler for medicine tablets/capsules blah blah. Ad astra per aspera
Your situation. I'm not an expert but I've heard the old wife's tale that some lactose intolerance can be overcome, lactase being an inducible enzyme system. What's your situation, if I'm not being too personal? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
You can get lactase tablets (which I'd thought the reference was to) that are meant to be eaten when you have dairy and apparently it magically breaks all the lactose down. But people use it as an excuse to overindulge on creamy, buttery dairy packed stuff and wonder why it hasn't worked. Ad astra per aspera
Don't pay attention to that man behind the curtain! In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.