Sore throat & cold

[Kimzy]

Hi guys,

Does anybody know of any Diabetic safe throat sweets, I was going to try sugar free strepsils but read there is something else in them that is as bad as sugar, are there any sugar free diabetic safe throat lozenge’s

Thanks xxx

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Halls do sugar free things. Though now I look, I see the nutrition info says (per 100g) 97.5g, of which 0.03g are sugars. So perhaps I should have read the label more carefully. Personally I'm not bothered; they're small and I'm not going to eat many of them. (So on the whole I wouldn't worry too much. I don't worry about the carbs in Tesco's Lemsip-alike (basically lemon flavoured paracetamol, but I suspect I had it when I was a child so it works well largely by being comfortingly familiar).)

Depends how low a sugar (or carbohydrate) you regard as "safe", I guess. And that might be different for people who're T2.

 

[Kaylz]

I tend to not bother with things like that and just let it naturally run it's course without intervention, yes its a pain and I've been left feeling like I'm swallowing razor blades for days on end etc but that's just me, I don't like taking things I don't need to xx

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ve had sugar free strepsils, and regular ones. When I’m feeling lousy enough to actually need throat sweets my BG is out of whack anyway so an occasional 5g of carbs (or whatever it is) won’t make that much difference to me.

Everyone is different though.