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Hello everyone.
I thought I'd join this site and gain some helpful tips here. I found it after searching up blood spikes from crumpets! My Son loves them, but they don't love him it seems
 
I am sorry to read about your son's crumpet spikes because crumpets are yummy.
If his levels rise and fall again, all is not lost - it is probably that the carbs in the crumpets is working faster than his insulin. So you could inject earlier so the insulin peak matches the carb peak. Or you may be able to slow the carb peak by adding fat - I enjoy my crumpets with a slice of cheese on top.

A couple of other thoughts
- if your son's levels do not spike but stay high, you could increase his insulin dose
- when does he eat his crumpets? I ask because, if he has them for breakfast, this could be a Dawn Phenomenon thing rather than a crumpet thing.
- what does he put on his crumpets? As I mentioned, I have cheese. Many enjoy butter (it's as if the holes are made to drip butter through) and others enjoy jam and crumpets. If your son is a jam-boy, the jam may be the problem and a savoury topper may be easier on his diabetes.

My recent crumpet fad is due to finding a sourdough crumpet recipe - I enjoy sourdough bread but my sourdough starter was growing faster than my ability to eat the bread and the crumpets provide an alternative. By baking them myself, I have a more control over the recipe. I realise a lot of shop bought bread includes sugar which will speed up the carb absorption. I rarely add sugar to my bread.

I hope your son finds a way to continue his crumpets. Diabetes can be a pain at the best of times and taking away our comfort food is not good.
 
Welcome @MumOfType1Son 🙂 I want a crumpet now! I second Helli’s advice that your son experiment with bolus timings. I find crumpets quite blood-sugar friendly as long as I resist putting golden syrup on them. I have them as part of a meal.

How old is your son? Is he on injections or a pump?
 
Welcome to the forum @MumOfType1Son

Hope you can find the right bolus approach and timing for your son’s crumpet desires. Some foodstuff are worth the extra experimentation and may need their own insulin:carb ratio and ‘bolus headstart’, but most things can usually be tamed.

And the required experimentation just means having them more often while you work it out (and/or have to tweak it when diabetes moves the goalposts) 😛

@helli - do you keep your sourdough starter in the fridge when not using it? That can help prevent you getting overrun!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
@helli - do you keep your sourdough starter in the fridge when not using it? That can help prevent you getting overrun!
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Yes, my sourdough starter is the jar of strange looking gloop at the back of my fridge.
I think my problem is a desire for different types of bread each week - it was a malted loaf last week, foccacia the week before, baguettes before that, pumpernickel before that, ... and we don't eat enough bread as a couple to warrant more than one lot of baking each weekend.
 
helli said:
I am sorry to read about your son's crumpet spikes because crumpets are yummy.
If his levels rise and fall again, all is not lost - it is probably that the carbs in the crumpets is working faster than his insulin. So you could inject earlier so the insulin peak matches the carb peak. Or you may be able to slow the carb peak by adding fat - I enjoy my crumpets with a slice of cheese on top.

A couple of other thoughts
- if your son's levels do not spike but stay high, you could increase his insulin dose
- when does he eat his crumpets? I ask because, if he has them for breakfast, this could be a Dawn Phenomenon thing rather than a crumpet thing.
- what does he put on his crumpets? As I mentioned, I have cheese. Many enjoy butter (it's as if the holes are made to drip butter through) and others enjoy jam and crumpets. If your son is a jam-boy, the jam may be the problem and a savoury topper may be easier on his diabetes.

My recent crumpet fad is due to finding a sourdough crumpet recipe - I enjoy sourdough bread but my sourdough starter was growing faster than my ability to eat the bread and the crumpets provide an alternative. By baking them myself, I have a more control over the recipe. I realise a lot of shop bought bread includes sugar which will speed up the carb absorption. I rarely add sugar to my bread.

I hope your son finds a way to continue his crumpets. Diabetes can be a pain at the best of times and taking away our comfort food is not good.
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Hi Helli.
Thank you so much for your reply. So much helpful info there. For the last 7-8 days he has them for breakfast, usually 3, with choc spread on. He's 13years old and 6'2 so whilst 3 might sound like alot he's a very long, thin growing lad with hollow legs
He's on a medtronic pump and libre 2 sensor. I have been watching with horror alarms pinging whilst he's at school with high, hypo.
It only occurred to me today that it might be the crumpets having this effect. So with much complaining he had cereal today and so far not one alarm has gone off yet.
I will test him when he gets home with a single crumpet and cheese!
We can set a dual wave with the pump and split insulin delivery, we do this with pasta, we can try that with crumpets too. I just never expected crumpets to have this effect!!

Thanks again.
 
Inka said:
Welcome @MumOfType1Son 🙂 I want a crumpet now! I second Helli’s advice that your son experiment with bolus timings. I find crumpets quite blood-sugar friendly as long as I resist putting golden syrup on them. I have them as part of a meal.

How old is your son? Is he on injections or a pump?
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Hi Inka,
He is 13yrs, and on a pump. There is more info in my reply to Helli. (Saves me typing it all twice lol)
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Welcome to the forum @MumOfType1Son

Hope you can find the right bolus approach and timing for your son’s crumpet desires. Some foodstuff are worth the extra experimentation and may need their own insulin:carb ratio and ‘bolus headstart’, but most things can usually be tamed.

And the required experimentation just means having them more often while you work it out (and/or have to tweak it when diabetes moves the goalposts) 😛

@helli - do you keep your sourdough starter in the fridge when not using it? That can help prevent you getting overrun!
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Hi there!
I'm sure my Son will have no issue with eating more of them whilst we work it all out lol.
 
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