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excercise question

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Hi everyone hope you are all ok
took my son to football today and he had forgot his insulin so i had to go back home and collect it
anyway when he did a check he was 24mmol just before the start of the game
now one of the farthers of another chiild is a diabetic and said my son would be fine he will run it off now normally i would give him his insulin and not let him play until his blood sugars have returned. any way for this once i gave him 3 and a hlf units and let him play when he had finished he was 3.8.
just wondered what everyone else does when it comes to exercise🙄
 
If higher than 14 and not eaten for 4 hours - then no exercise until levels are down and also check for ketones (never exercise with ketones) - if there isnt enough insulin on board it will make the levels shoot up even higher. But if just eaten and 14 - then yes exercise is ok. Be careful giving insulin just before exercise as absorption is much quicker.🙂Bev
 
Hi

You need insulin in the cells to have energy to exercise. The other dad was wrong but he may not know the up to date stuff.

It is presumed (by the experts) that if levels are over 14.0 then you have no insulin present in the cells in your body and therefore when you exercise the adrenaline kicks in and your levels will go up. Bizarre and hard to get your head around I know but true.

So to be able to exercise you need to insert some insulin into those cells.

What we do with a pump is go through the motions of a correction bolus and see what the pump wants to give for a full correction but we never hit that Act button to give the insulin. We look for the info. If the pump wants to give say 2 units as a full correction (regardless of insulin on board) we give half a correction bolus so would only give 1 unit.

So if 4 units was needed to a full correction down from 24 mmol, we would have given 2 units. However at 24 mmol there really should have been no play until down in the teens, even high teens would be ok if you had given some insulin.

However Bev is right, if ketones present no exercising, you need to get rid of those ketones.

So that is theory behind it all, whether it always works like that is a different story, we all know that diabetes has a mind of its own.

🙂
 
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