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How many carbs in 15 jelly babies?
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Depends which JBs I think... Even the Bassetts ones come in different sizes (regular and 'fun-sized bag' ones)
Redkite
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Thankyou Cleo, I thought it would be about 70g. We don't use them (he takes dextrose tabs or coke for hypos).
I had a phone call from my son at school at about 1.30pm (pre lunch BG of 15mmol) - the geography teacher had been feeding the class large quantities of jelly babies (I think they are studying world population). He ate 15 and guessed a bolus of 30g 😱 - but at least he did think to bolus some insulin. So it's no surprise that he's gone from 5.2 at breaktime up to 15+!!! This will mess up the afternoon, as he's got games straight after lunch (x-country running) and would normally slightly reduce his lunch bolus, whereas now he's got a huge correction sloshing about. 😡 I'm annoyed with the teacher, not specifically for my type 1 son, but for all the other kids too who have been administered 15 spoonfuls of sugar!
I had a phone call from my son at school at about 1.30pm (pre lunch BG of 15mmol) - the geography teacher had been feeding the class large quantities of jelly babies (I think they are studying world population). He ate 15 and guessed a bolus of 30g 😱 - but at least he did think to bolus some insulin. So it's no surprise that he's gone from 5.2 at breaktime up to 15+!!! This will mess up the afternoon, as he's got games straight after lunch (x-country running) and would normally slightly reduce his lunch bolus, whereas now he's got a huge correction sloshing about. 😡 I'm annoyed with the teacher, not specifically for my type 1 son, but for all the other kids too who have been administered 15 spoonfuls of sugar!
oh dear - why on earth did the geography teacher feed them jelly babies?!. sorry to hear that it messed up the afternoon, but as you say, at least your son bolused for them which is great - and if you dont use them as hypo remedies he woudnt have known the carb content. I guess he did the best he could given the circumstances 🙂
Flower
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What an odd geography lesson! I did a geography degree and we never had to consume any jelly baby populations to understand the concepts. My school wouldn't even give me the sugar cube with the polio vaccine. I hope your sons level stabilise soon.
Hi Redkite,
Would it be worth getting the carbs and cals app for his phone? When this has happened in the past with Alex he has mostly guessed and seems good at that - but if a new product he will always ask the teacher or whoever for the packet so he can work out the carbs from that. I personally dont mind them having one-off treats at School - its a good bit of bonding - although not every day of course!
Bev
Would it be worth getting the carbs and cals app for his phone? When this has happened in the past with Alex he has mostly guessed and seems good at that - but if a new product he will always ask the teacher or whoever for the packet so he can work out the carbs from that. I personally dont mind them having one-off treats at School - its a good bit of bonding - although not every day of course!
Bev
Redkite
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Bev, he doesn't have a smartphone so can't have the app! He did however look on the sweet packet but read it wrongly, as it said "3 sweets contain... 6g of sugar" and didn't give total carbs for 3 sweets which would have been 15g. He did his best 🙂
The jelly baby game was as follows - each group of 3-4 pupils had a pack of jelly babies and a mythical country (country 1, country 2, etc.). The different colour jelly babies represented different groups in the population - young men, old men, women, migrant workers, ethnic minorities, etc. Then a number of disasters occurred, e.g. earthquakes, to see which parts of the population were disproportionately affected (they got eaten). Despite most of the people in my son's "country" surviving to the end of the lesson, it seems there was some final cataclysmic disaster which meant they all had to be eaten! Too tempting.
He has learnt a lesson though about being a bit more self-restrained and maybe bringing home a doggy bag next time, because predictably after the spike and correction, he ended up hypo in games (which luckily had been changed to football, so less strenuous than x-country), and I had to collect him by car instead of him walking home. So he does realise he's had a rollercoaster day thanks to too many sweets in one go. Now it's me that needs to restrain myself from going on about it! 😉
The jelly baby game was as follows - each group of 3-4 pupils had a pack of jelly babies and a mythical country (country 1, country 2, etc.). The different colour jelly babies represented different groups in the population - young men, old men, women, migrant workers, ethnic minorities, etc. Then a number of disasters occurred, e.g. earthquakes, to see which parts of the population were disproportionately affected (they got eaten). Despite most of the people in my son's "country" surviving to the end of the lesson, it seems there was some final cataclysmic disaster which meant they all had to be eaten! Too tempting.
He has learnt a lesson though about being a bit more self-restrained and maybe bringing home a doggy bag next time, because predictably after the spike and correction, he ended up hypo in games (which luckily had been changed to football, so less strenuous than x-country), and I had to collect him by car instead of him walking home. So he does realise he's had a rollercoaster day thanks to too many sweets in one go. Now it's me that needs to restrain myself from going on about it! 😉
Hi Redkite,
Aah well done to your son!🙂I think he did really well and an easy mistake to make but at least he made the effort to find the carbs. You only have to read some threads regarding older teenagers to realise that your lucky if some of them even bolus let alone find out the carbs! When Alex transitioned into teenagers clinic they seemed happy that he did 5 or more bolus' a day! I didnt really get it at first but it was explained that many teenagers just dont bother and even worse dont bother to test! I think we are both really lucky that our teenagers havent yet rebelled and are compliant compared to others. I would let it go and feel proud that he tried and he did bolus and most of all he enjoyed themBev
Aah well done to your son!🙂I think he did really well and an easy mistake to make but at least he made the effort to find the carbs. You only have to read some threads regarding older teenagers to realise that your lucky if some of them even bolus let alone find out the carbs! When Alex transitioned into teenagers clinic they seemed happy that he did 5 or more bolus' a day! I didnt really get it at first but it was explained that many teenagers just dont bother and even worse dont bother to test! I think we are both really lucky that our teenagers havent yet rebelled and are compliant compared to others. I would let it go and feel proud that he tried and he did bolus and most of all he enjoyed them
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