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Alternative hypo treatments

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aymes

aymes

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As a few of you will know, I have glandular fever at the moment. Feeling dreadful with it at the moment and pretty miserable, but this is not a general winge (those of you who know me outside of the forum have heard plenty of that already).

Surprisingly, despite me having my sick day notes to hand I haven't experienced any high bgs as a result, looking online this pretty unusual so am prepared and looking out for it. The main problem I've had is hypos, surprising as I'm obviously being a lot less active than usual. I guess the lack of food is proving to be one long basal test, my basal has always been really sensitive to weight gain or loss and I've already dropped a fair bit of weight so I suspect my dose needs to reduce. I'm doing this gradually but nervous of doing anything too dramatic in case the illness starts increasing my bgs. So in the meantime I need to treat the hypos as they arise. As you'd expect I'm finding swallowing extremely painful so things like jelly babies are out and fruit juice, cola etc really hurt my throat so I really struggle to get those down as well. I just wondered if anyone has any suggestions of something liquid I could use that's less likely to sting. Used ice cream last night for a 'higher' hypo but I expect if it was a low one that wouldn't act quick enough...?
 
Only other thing I can think of is the hypo-stop gel which comes in tubes.
 
William has stuff called Dextrogel on prescription although he's never actually used it as he'd rather have jelly babies, but it is a liquid and is probably fairly soothing. If going through the GP is to much hassle, you could send someone friendly out to Tesco to get you some glucose syrup ... I believe they stock Silver Spoon brand or Dr. Oetker Liquid Glucose (cake making aisle probably). My uncle uses honey ... Anything liquid and sugary that you can count the carbs for should be OK I'd have thought. Poor you - I had glandular fever years ago and remember how rubbish it was. Hope you feel better soon
 
I've tried "squeezy pouches" from Asda - dairy type are least likely to sting mouth, but fruit and jelly are also available. 42p each, around 16g CHO / 14g sugar per pouch.
 
Hi, as a regular hypo treatment for my little girl we use a teaspoon of golden syrup or honey, honey would do your throat good as well, hope you feel better soon 🙂
 
Would Ribena be any kinder on the throat than fruit juice? How about eating jelly?

Hope you feel better soon! x
 
You poor thing,

Good tip is to get thing cold to help numb the throat

when I had glandular freezer I think I lived off yogert and ice cream and I would ensure that my luccozade was cold as possible...
 
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