Hello I’m a newbie

[Flowjo1970]

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[Leadinglights]

Hi guys I’m 52 I’ve been type1 for around 10 years now . I’m into my fitness. I have recently had a slanging match with my Gym. Regards them stocking glucose in their first-aid kit. What are your feelings on this subject and does anybody know anything about it I feel they should have glucose available for their diabetic members, just wondering what anybody else thinks thanks

There are very strict rules about what can be kept in a first aid box and as a first aider you are generally not allowed to administer anything.
I would say it is every diabetics personal responsibility to keep their hypo treatment with them at all times and be able to monitor their level.

 

[Lucyr]

Hi guys I’m 52 I’ve been type1 for around 10 years now . I’m into my fitness. I have recently had a slanging match with my Gym. Regards them stocking glucose in their first-aid kit. What are your feelings on this subject and does anybody know anything about it I feel they should have glucose available for their diabetic members, just wondering what anybody else thinks thanks

You should provide your own glucose and keep it with you at all times

 

[rebrascora]

I certainly would not expect anywhere I went, be it a gym or theatre or nightclub (alas no longer these days 🙄 ) or church or supermarket or even the GP surgery to provide me with hypo treatment. It is my responsibility to carry it, just like I would not expect them to have an inhaler in the first aid kit just in case someone had an asthma attack and wasn't carrying their inhaler.

 

[Lucyr]

Also if you arent carrying glucose because you're expecting the gym to supply it in case of hypos, what happens if you have a hypo on the way home after the gym? Who are you expecting to provide the glucose to treat your hypo then?

 

[rebrascora]

Oh and welcome to the forum by the way..... There are a few o us late starters with Type 1 here. I was 56 when it turned up. Fitter and healthier than I have been for years though.
If you haven't gathered it from the responses so far, we are an independent lot who believe in self help to keep ourselves safe.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

It is my responsibility to carry it, just like I would not expect them to have an inhaler in the first aid kit just in case someone had an asthma attack and wasn't carrying their inhaler.

I think that's how I feel too. I think I would anticipate they'd have a vending machine with sports drinks or fruit juice, or maybe some sugar they have with tea and coffee and to offer me something along those lines. While I try to always carry something suitable, mistakes happen, and if an organisation knows they've going to be having people who might go hypo making minor plans like that make sense. (I know my workplace has done for me in the past. I went through a period of some nasty hypos and they bought some non-diet coke. I imagine it's been thrown away by now, but there's still sugar.)

 

[rebrascora]

I think I would anticipate they'd have a vending machine with sports drinks or fruit juice, or maybe some sugar they have with tea and coffee and to offer me something along those lines.

That's what I was thinking, re a vending machine if all else fails. There are few places where there would not be access to something that would do in an emergency, but if you are in a state where you need assistance from someone else then an ambulance is the best bet rather than someone trying to stuff sweets or tablets in your mouth and potentially risk you choking.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

rather than someone trying to stuff sweets or tablets in your mouth and potentially risk you choking.

Yes, absolutely! I'm just imagining someone fully conscious who knows they need something sugary but for some reason doesn't have anything.