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Fandange

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Hi All,

Bede (10) has been a little high over the last couple of days.....ketones 0.1, a little off colour, but generally doing okay.Until this afternoon when he started having low around lunch time.......I sent him to do a blood test at about 5.20 this afternoon, followed him up to his room 2 mins later where I found him incoherrant on the bed. He was 2.3 so I gave him glucogel and waited with his to recover........he didn't get any better, couldn't remember my partner's name, didn't know who I was and I wasn't able to get any more blood......999.....a paramedic team arrived within 10 mins, with an ambulance 15 mins behind them!

It took 2 lots of glucogel, 2 cans of coke, crackers with jam and about 45 mins to bring him up to 3.9. In all we had 6 paramedics standing around!!! They were all great and kind and really caring with Bede. He doesn't really remember what happened......

However, the advice that they gave me about glucogon and glucogel differs from what the DSN told me about severe lows. They said to give him both if he was delirious.

And as for Bede.....he is sparkey and bright and back to normal, telling jokes and eating and eating and eating......
 
i can imagine you were stress fortunatly every time that graham has been low we always manage with lucozade i have to call the paramedic when he was a baby before he was diabetic
 
Hi Fandange,
Sorry to hear this - it sounds really scary. Most people find that glucogel is not good - and tastes awful. If this were to happen again - go straight to the Glucogen Injection - it is far more effective than glucogel and works immediately. I am puzzled as to why the paramedics didnt give Glucogen though. I hope Bede is feeling better now and dont forget - after a hypo like this - hypo's breed hypo's - so let him run high over the next day at least - not under 10 I would say.🙂Bev
 
Thanks, Bev. I can't tell you how much your advice has helped me in the last few weeks! I'm just about to check his blood again now, and like you say, through the night tonight. The glucogon is at hand......
 
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