Hi there please, can you help me, or point me in the right direction. I said in my earlier post about my 6 year olds new diagnosis T1, but I'm really bad at mathematics and I mean very limited in what I understand, my husband worked out a formula for me to use and when he was out earlier I lost the link and really had no idea what I was doing, I had weighed everything ready, then I got completely lost what I was supposed to be dividing by 100g to what I had weighed I referred to my carbs and Cal book and in my panic it's just all gobbildigook!! Sorry if this is not the right place to ask for help
Don't panic!
Are you saying, you know how many carbs there are in 100g of the food, and you've weighed your son's portion and you want to know how to calculate how many grammes in his portion?
The sum you need to do is ( use a calculator)
1) Divide the total number of carbs per hundred grammes, ( what it says on the food label) by 100.
2) Multiply the answer you get by the total number of grammes in your sons portion.
For example, if he's having pasta, and it's 80g carbs per 100g of the product. And he's having a 40g portion. Divide 80 by 100. (answer 0.8). Multiply 0.8 by 40. ( answer 32). Now you have what you need, there are 32g of carb in 40g of pasta.
If you're still confused, post the actual amounts on here, and someone will do the maths for you.
Now, you will know his insulin to carb ratio, say its 1:10. That means for every 10g of carb, he needs one unit of insulin. 10 goes into 32 approximately 3 times, so it would,be three units of insulin. (His ratio might be different, if it's 1:20 the sum would be, for every 20g of carbs he needs 1 unit of insulin, so divide 32 by 20, and it's approximately 1.5) but you get the idea. If not, give us another shout!
Don't worry, it'll become second nature.
