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How much sugar needed to recover from hypo

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Stuart Knox said:
As a first aid trainer, the latest guidelines we follow are 20g glucose - either 4 jelly babies, 20 skittles, 200ml lemonade (just over half of a can), 150ml lucozade, 200ml orange juice, dissolve 4 teaspoons of sugar or glucose tabs (these vary but 20g of tabs).
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For someone having a hypo that needed help from a first aider the worst thing you could give them would be skittle the chocking hazard doesn't bare thinking about.
 
Having tried skittles when I ran out of Dextrosol in a carpark once, I think they are possibly the second worst hypo fix I have ever tried, as most of them ended up stuck to my teeth!
The worst was individually wrapped chocolate biscuits which I had by the bed and after quite a bad hypo episode in the night I awoke to find I was lying in a pool of chocolate and crumbs!
 
Interesting that you all say slow acting isn't needed as we was just told a month ago to do this, think I'll stop doing it as it does tend to send her high
 
I have found out that between 3.5 and 4.0 I need one jelly baby, 3.0-3.5 I need two and less that 3 I take three jelly babies. It is different for different people.

I have also stopped any long acting after unless I have done exercise and need restocking stores. The important thing is to wait 15 min before retesting. That is the difficult bit, especially if I started very low. Any hotter and I end up over treating.
 
I was recommended 60 mls lucozade (original) or 3 dextro tablets..seems to do the trick...dextros are very small and convient to carry about x
 
The gluco tabs, jelly babies etc are a lot easier to carry that a can of drinks and you can then adjust how many you eat. With a can you can't leave half for the next hypo.
 
SB2015 said:
The gluco tabs, jelly babies etc are a lot easier to carry that a can of drinks and you can then adjust how many you eat. With a can you can't leave half for the next hypo.
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Funnily enough, at home I drink half a carton of Ribena and put the other half in the fridge. Not practical when out and about, clearly!
 
I have a carton of cranberry next to the bed. There is a half carton left there at present, but I think I might need to get rid of it now. It is a while since the last night hypo. (The fridge would have been the sensible place for it)
 
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