Rice, no rise?

[Shivles]

Last 2 nights I've give LO rice with her tea and both nights she has gone low after tea which I treat appropriately and then her sugars stay pretty much the same overnight, dropping maybe a couple of mmol at best.

What on earth? I thought rice would give a big spike but it seems to not affect her at all!

 

[Northerner]

Rice works the same for me, as does spaghetti! 🙂 Sometimes it's very hard to fathom why we react how we do, and in such very different ways to the same things. There was a programme on BBC a while back where they were suggesting it's our individual gut bacteria (unique to each and every one of us!) that has a major influence on how rapidly (or otherwise!) some things convert to glucose and raise levels. 🙂

Things may change, especially in one so young, but it's encouraging if she can happily have rice in her diet! 🙂

 

[Shivles]

Rice works the same for me, as does spaghetti! 🙂 Sometimes it's very hard to fathom why we react how we do, and in such very different ways to the same things. There was a programme on BBC a while back where they were suggesting it's our individual gut bacteria (unique to each and every one of us!) that has a major influence on how rapidly (or otherwise!) some things convert to glucose and raise levels. 🙂

Things may change, especially in one so young, but it's encouraging if she can happily have rice in her diet! 🙂

How would you bolus for it then?

 

[Northerner]

How would you bolus for it then?

With me it's usually a case of altering the timing of my bolus so I inject closer to when I eat. Some people split their bolus, with half before and then the remaining half, an hour later (although I have never bothered with this). On pumps there are facilities to take half the bolus up front, then trickle in the remaining dose over several hours 🙂

 

[grovesy]

Rice works the same for me, as does spaghetti! 🙂 Sometimes it's very hard to fathom why we react how we do, and in such very different ways to the same things. There was a programme on BBC a while back where they were suggesting it's our individual gut bacteria (unique to each and every one of us!) that has a major influence on how rapidly (or otherwise!) some things convert to glucose and raise levels. 🙂

Things may change, especially in one so young, but it's encouraging if she can happily have rice in her diet! 🙂

The programme about gut bacteria was an episode of Trust me I am Doctor , but not the series that has just finished !

 

[AlisonM]

I don't have issues with rice any more either, I did in the days before MDI but that's all gone now. I'd got into the habit of taking a bit extra if I had rice and started going low a couple of hours after eating. I still need to load up with insulin if I have pasta or potatoes with a meal but not for rice these days. Also, I don't seem to get the carb heavy feeling post-meal if I have rice as I do with pasta, cereals, bread and spuds.

We all react differently and it's a case of try it, test, and record the results for all of us. You're doing a great job.

 

[KookyCat]

Rice has no impact on me at all really, it seems to digest slowly and steadily for me. I tended to go hypo quite quickly when bolusing for it, so I tried split bolus and still went hypo. So I either inject after I've eaten it if I'm having other carbs in the meal, or as most often happens I reduce bolus for it, my standard bolus is 1:20 at dinner time and 1:15 at lunch but for the rice portion I do 1:25 and 1:20 instead and inject mid meal, that does it. I'm not really a fan of rice, but I do like the occasional risotto and I used to love apple muller rice, it was the apple muller rice that brought about the realisation that I needed less bolus, they're pretty carb heavy and I'd bought a six pack (I have food obsessions, always have done, I'll eat a muller rice every day for a week then not touch one for 12 months....weird I know 🙄) and had a hypo at 3pm every day, had to be the rice but didn't do much experimenting because I didn't really believe it what with all that sugar in there, then I had a risotto phase about six months later and sure enough the same thing happened. I can practically go bolus free with a couple of pieces of veggie sushi which was a shocker. Typical, my body loves a bit of rice, but my tastebuds don't really agree, though come to think of it I haven't had a muller rice for about 12 months so maybe it's time!