Honey

[Betsyben]

Hi
Is it Ok to take honey and cinnamon when diabetic?

Thanks
Betsyben🙄

 

[PhilT]

Hi Betsyben and welcome to the forum.

Honey is not the best thing to take when you're diabetic as it has a high amount of carbohydrate in it 17.3g per tablespoon, which will push your BG's up. So best to avoid if possible. I think that cinnamon is ok though.

 

[Caroline]

cinamon is fine, but as we are all different the honey affects us in different ways.

My suggestion would be to try a small ammount and test as honey is still a form of simple carbohydrate. It is supposed to be better than refined sugar, although I'm sure someone else will be along soon with more advice!

 

[Betsyben]

Thanks PhilT
I read somewhere that it can lower your sugar levels.
Betsyben

 

[SacredHeart]

I would be shocked if honey lowered your BS, as it's almost totally carb.

 

[Caroline]

Honey wont lower your sugar levels, but it is a natural sedative, anisceptic and is brilliant for sore throats if you don't want loads of chemicals!

 

[SacredHeart]

A sedative? I've never heard that one! Wow, you learn something new every day

 

[Caroline]

A sedative? I've never heard that one! Wow, you learn something new every day

It is a very mild sedative. In winter when the kids were over excited (especially in the run up to Christmas) we were always given warm milk with a couple of teaspoons of honey in it. Because I liked it, it was worth getting exctied for and it took my mum ages to work out what I was doing, and by then I was big enough to do it for myself. In the summer we were given cammomile tea with honey in it.

 

[SacredHeart]

Ooooh....honey and warm milk. That sounds yummy

 

[Caroline]

In the dpeths of winter when the bedroom is cold going to bed with something warm inside helps you to sleep better and it is very yummy indeed. For a real treat we sometimes got a digestive biscuit, but can you imagine wht that would to to the sugar levels now unless you were close to a hypo?!

 

[SacredHeart]

True enough. But oooh, next time I, hypo at home

 

[Caroline]

True enough. But oooh, next time I, hypo at home

I wouldn't wish a hypo on anyone, but there are some things worth being very close (is 3.9 still hypo?) to one for....

 

[SacredHeart]

I class anything under 4 as a hypo. I was taught to follow 'Four is the floor' 🙂

 

[Caroline]

I class anything under 4 as a hypo. I was taught to follow 'Four is the floor' 🙂

I'm type 2 so less likely to hypo, which is why no one has ever mentioned them to me medically. Infact, if it were not for this forum I wouldn't even know people had hypos or what to do with one should it happen in front of me...

 

[SacredHeart]

That's shocking, really.

 

[Caroline]

Not sure if my doctor is a muppett or a sesame street charecter, he seems to think his word is good enough and his word is that I don't need to know. My come back is always if I don't know how, then how am I expected to care for myself. If I am ill and need help, I have to be persistent or go to the hospital if I am too poorly to wait a few days!

 

[SacredHeart]

It's just good that you're pro-active enough to research your own condition. I worry for people who aren't tech savvy. I was shocked at some of the people's attitudes and beliefs when I went on a morning's carb-counting workshop last year!

 

[Caroline]

I work in a library, our motto is knowledge is power. It is nice when I can produce stuff for the doctor from reputable publications!

 

[SacredHeart]

Always good!

 

[Caroline]

Gives me great pleasur to watch the doctor squirm, and he still hasn't worked out where I get my hands on things like The Lancet and other medical journals!