Changes to Lucozade glucose content

[Mr TEL]

I only finger prick about 4 times a day. No need for anything else. The tablets were called Clinitest. The strips were made by Boehringer and they may have been called Clinistrips. Can't believe that they trusted a 9-year old to test themselves and handle such dangerous chemicals - that tube used to get darn hot! Found the last bottle of old Orange Luco today in the bargain bin in the supermarket. Seems there are lots of the original flavour still about, which I don't really like but hey!
Worryingly, the woman at the pharma counter in Boots had no idea they's changed it, and had both types on the shelf.

 

[trophywench]

Good grief - they've produced flippin posters about it ! I deliberately stuck my finger in the murky depths of the test tube one day - took ruddy weeks for my finger to heal from the scald. They really WERE 'boiling' tablets after all - and that's why they came with a neat little wooden test tube rack - too flippin hot to hold as the chemical reaction occurred.

Crikey - even in 1961 when I was 11 and hence started getting chemistry lessons, we were issued with eg goggles and gauntlets and great aprons as necessary to protect us from the fallout from experiments in the lab. However of course, that's how I knew when I was 22 that the Clinitest scald was much more like an acid burn than when you carelessly splash water from a kettle.

Oh Boehringer Mannheim - their name still lives on amongst wet behind the ears HCAs in hospitals who always want to tests one's BM whilst doing their Obs round! Asked the one doing my husband's last year why it was called a BM test - and of course she hadn't the slightest idea. I said to her well It's silly - the B is quite obviously Blood, but what the heck is the M? And then told her why - and said it was about ruddy time they stopped teaching it as the 'BM Test' !!