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A couple of questions please.

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Hi everyone, hope you are all well.

I have forgotten how many mlls of lucozade i am supposed to drink, when hypo. Could anyone possibly tell me please.

Also, i have read many times about people being put on a ' sliding scale ' when taken into hospital. Could you tell me what this is please, as i have heard of it but do not know.

Thanks very much.🙂
 
If I remember correctly I think it's 50ml of lucozade for treating a hypo.
Not sure about the sliding scale question sorry, I've not heard of this before. I'm sure someone will know.🙂
 
I tend to use about a quarter of one of the regular bottles (approx 15g CHO). A couple of swigs.

I've heard of sliding scale, but don't know what it is either I'm afraid!
 
For hypos, there are a few ideas on treatment. I have 15g of fast acting glucose in the form of 150ml of coke (small can).

I don't know how this would translate into lucozade.

The sliding scale is a means of working out insulin for treating DKA apparently.

I didn't know but this link tells you http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Insulin_sliding_scale 🙂

Rob
 
A sliding scale is IV administration of insulin, administered according to blood glucose. For example, if BM is 0-4, no insulin will be given, if BM is 4-6.9, one unit will be given, and so on according to different hospital protocols. Actrapid or novorapid are generally used. It is often used for patients who are nil by mouth, ICU, after surgery, after heart attack, in paediatric patients etc. Hope this helps! 🙂
 
100ml lucozade is 17.2 carbs 🙂
 
Thanks for asking Casey r.e sliding scale I saw it in Gails thread recently and wondered what it meant.
 
I was put on a sliding scale when diagnosed and waiting for an angiogram. As I couldn't eat anything prior to the procedure they put me on a glucose drip and insulin pump which were calibrated so my levels stayed steady i.e. I did not drop too low, thanks to the glucose, and didn't go too high thanks to the insulin 🙂
 
It is as already stated, standard procedure - for a Type 1 at the very least - after a general anaesthetic when you obviously can't eat; and for as long afterwards as you can't eat eg I throw up unremittingly so it can be a week! LOL.

Nothing to be frightened of as long as you are regularly monitored and if you aren't you need to either kick and scream yourself or get your visitors to do that for you!
 
When I was admitted to hospital at the beginning of May (abdominal infection -- I wasn't DKA as far as I know, but I was NBM for the first day or two), I was put on a sliding scale, probably because I was NBM and am insulin-dependent (since February).
 
I was put on a sliding scale when I was in labour, and unable to do my own injections, eat etc. The nurses managed to keep my sugar levels spot on, I was really impressed.
 
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