Hi,
It's a few hours after the fact, but when you are in the situation, it feels like you can't do anything else but deal with it.
Anyway, my daughter went out with her father yesterday and, as part of their day together, he gets to spend money on her. He bought her diabetic sweets. She scoffed a whole lot of them. She already felt a bit dicey and the result of taking the sweets was in sore tummies, and a lot of running to the toilet 😱.
She started getting stroppy and my husband got her blood checked. It was 3.8. She felt really rough and our response - over the next half hour or so she had
1 tube of glucogel :yeuch:
2 biscuits
1 bottle Dr Pepper (full sugar)
1 cupcake
(we didn't have any glucotabs at the time
)
Anyway, the result was that after another half an hour or so her body started feeling better. It took a bit longer for her head to feel that way.
She said that she still felt a bit rubbish and was still going to the loo 😱.
We phoned the kids unit who said that we should monitor her constantly through the night, as her blood levels could drop.
She requested supper on top of that lot, which was 2 pieces of toast and a glass of milk. We gave her the usual 12 levemir to cover the supper.
The upshot was raised blood sugars through the night, with my champion husband heroically doing the checking. At 3am it was 19 and we agreed that she would be unlikely to have a hypo an went to sleep.
At 8am her blood sugar was 16.4. It's at least 6.4mml too high so I'm wondering what we could have done differently?
It's a few hours after the fact, but when you are in the situation, it feels like you can't do anything else but deal with it.
Anyway, my daughter went out with her father yesterday and, as part of their day together, he gets to spend money on her. He bought her diabetic sweets. She scoffed a whole lot of them. She already felt a bit dicey and the result of taking the sweets was in sore tummies, and a lot of running to the toilet 😱.
She started getting stroppy and my husband got her blood checked. It was 3.8. She felt really rough and our response - over the next half hour or so she had
1 tube of glucogel :yeuch:
2 biscuits
1 bottle Dr Pepper (full sugar)
1 cupcake
(we didn't have any glucotabs at the time
Anyway, the result was that after another half an hour or so her body started feeling better. It took a bit longer for her head to feel that way.
She said that she still felt a bit rubbish and was still going to the loo 😱.
We phoned the kids unit who said that we should monitor her constantly through the night, as her blood levels could drop.
She requested supper on top of that lot, which was 2 pieces of toast and a glass of milk. We gave her the usual 12 levemir to cover the supper.
The upshot was raised blood sugars through the night, with my champion husband heroically doing the checking. At 3am it was 19 and we agreed that she would be unlikely to have a hypo an went to sleep.
At 8am her blood sugar was 16.4. It's at least 6.4mml too high so I'm wondering what we could have done differently?