hypo

[Patricia]

Method for treating hypos exactly what we've been told too, and it works. We occasionally overshoot/overtreat, but generally the glucose then 10 mins later the carb, works. We've not yet had to do the glucose twice, BUT once when he didn't sit still after the glucose, he had difficulty with low numbers all day. He seems to need to stay still the full 10 mins before the carb -- for him that's the worst once he's feeling better, not to be able to go back to whatever he was doing.

Re the scone bev -- we occasionally have these as breakfast treats, and though not extra high in carb, they do send him in a big spike -- fast processed carb, methinks! I can imagine that with sausage and cream coming in later, the scone whizzed through...

Re jelly babies -- couldn't agree more. Got to use what works. My son doesn't like most sweets actually, and no fizzy drinks, so we're a little limited. Thank goodness he tolerates the glucose tabs (though only one flavour, ack!).

 

[diagonall]

What I was getting at and did the quote thing wrong was that Bev had said Alex has had a lot of hypo's and by anyones standards 15 carbs for jelly babies plus more if still low plus fizz and then 2 biscuits is a lot to treat a hypo.
If he is eating all of that for a hypo that means he has far too much basal.
1 digestive will raise blood sugars very quickly by 2 points.
If the basal is correct 15 carbs is all that is needed to treat a hypo, unless a lot of unexpected exercise has taken place.

 

[Northerner]

What I was getting at and did the quote thing wrong was that Bev had said Alex has had a lot of hypo's and by anyones standards 15 carbs for jelly babies plus more if still low plus fizz and then 2 biscuits is a lot to treat a hypo.
If he is eating all of that for a hypo that means he has far too much basal.
1 digestive will raise blood sugars very quickly by 2 points.
If the basal is correct 15 carbs is all that is needed to treat a hypo, unless a lot of unexpected exercise has taken place.

Not disagreeing with you Sue, but it must be extremely difficult to get basal right when honeymooning.

 

[diagonall]

Not disagreeing with you Sue, but it must be extremely difficult to get basal right when honeymooning.

Yep, that's why I sugested at talk with the dsn 🙂

 

[bev]

Thanks all,

I think i will double check with Alex's DN re treating hypos. Perhaps i overdid it with the jelly babies this time - but i think we need to clarify the exact amounts of sugar and carbs required.🙂Bev

 

[sofaraway]

I know that I can't drink lucozade to treat hypo's I would drink a 1 litre bottle as thrist is one of my strongest hypo symptoms.

I know that you inject before eating, I wonder if you talk to your DSN about timing insulin differently for high fat meals. it could have been that the dose was correct but the timing wasn't quite right as the insulin was working faster than the meal was digesting.

when I treat hypos i do the fast acting glucose (glucotabs) and then decide if I need to follow up with long acting carbs or not.