What is sugar alcohol and how does it affect dumping?

In my label reading, I'm finding that many sugar-free products have 0g of sugar, but list containing "sugar alcohol". For instance, in Murray Sugar Free peanut butter cookies - 6 cookies (they are tiny) are 130 calories, 3g protein, 0g sugars, 5g sugar alcohol. What exactly is sugar alcohol. Somebody in chat told me that sugar alcohol makes her dump. I have not had any bad reactions in my limited use of it thus far. Perhaps a diabetic knows about this? Thanks -

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