obaidkasiri
Active Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
thanx alot northerner .Obaid, you need to ask your doctor/nurse about what education courses are available to you, DAFNE (Dose Adjustment fr Normal Eating) is probably the best known, but your PCT may offer an alternative. This will teach you how to 'carb count' - working out how much fast-acting insulin you need to inject for the food you want to eat. There is an online carb counting course that is very good at http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/ - basically you work out ratios which tell you how many units of insulin you need for each 10 grams of carbs in your food. This will give you LOTS more flexibility and control over your levels 🙂
It's hard not to overtreat hypos, but the simple rule is 15/15 - consume 15 grams of carbs and wait 15 minutes then check to see if your levels have returned to normal range, if not then have another 15 grams. Of course, there will be occasions when you feel you can't wait another 15 minutes so you need to make a judgement call about whether you need more carbs sooner - but you get the idea about what is a suitable quantity - 150 ml of full sugar Coke or three jelly babies is 15g carbs.
its being a quite usefull information for me and i have also registered to tht BDEC and it seems quite informative so i am also going to learn all the things on that site .
And i have an appontment with a diabetec specialist in coming week so i am also going to discuss it in detail about these dose adjustment .
And about the coke thing lol i used to have a can of coke with a bar of choclate whenever im facing hypo lolx 😛 ,,, thats why my blood ranges always shoot after my hypo because exactly for the next 15 minutes you are feeling the same hypo condition so that is really gonna be helpfull for me 🙂 thanks for that