Some news about hypo treatments

[DeusXM]

Diabetes UK have quite an interesting article on treating hypos here. (http://www.diabetes.org.uk/news/mar04/jellybabies.htm)

Though what worried me was The research...shows there are alternatives to glucose tablets and drinks.

Really? Did I just pay £18 in membership fees to be told I could eat a chocolate bar to treat a hypo?

And I challenge ANYONE to eat just FOUR jelly babies :)

Especially when you can bite their heads off first.

[Andrea]

Originally posted by DeusXM
And I challenge ANYONE to eat just FOUR jelly babies :)


LOL!! That is exactly the reason that i prefer to treat my lows with glucose tablets or juice boxes. Give me a bag of candy and i will eat the whole thing and go from 50 mg/dl to 400 mg/dl in less than an hour! :whistling

It is funny that they have actually done research on this. Anyone with diabetes can figure that out within a couple of weeks of being on insulin injections. Not exactly mind blowing news!

Andrea

[Jean Cusick]

I was told NOT to eat chocolate to treat a low because the fat content would slow the effect of the sugar.

[Shalyndria]

I treat hypos with 15g CHO; the good old 15/15 rule. 20 g seems like too much to me.
I agree with you Andrea give me one candy I'll grab another...and another...and another.........

What exactly are Jelly Babies anyway? Are they like Gummi Bears?

Shy

[DeusXM]

Jelly Babies are a bit like gummy bears, but slightly bigger, and look like people. They're also slightly squishier and softer. Plus (and this is the best bit), because they're larger, they've got bigger heads, and because they look like people, it's incredibly satisfying to bite the heads off them.

On the downside, because they're made of softer jelly than gummy bears, there's less resistance when you bite off the head, which kinda ruins the realism. But I guess you can't have everything :mad:

[Oradev]

When I go low I wanna eat LIFE! ...so freakin hungry...

[Teresa]

i know what u mean, when i have a hypo 4 jelly babies would no way be enough!!! no chance!! Plus once a bag of jelly babies are open they have to be eaten! it would be cruel to leave some out... they would feel neglected!! haha

have any of you ever used hypostop gel?

[Harold]

Not only that they would get funky>

[Belinda]

lol

I treat mine with HI-C juice box or glucose tables depending on which I grab first. When I do have a low I sometimes eat extreme amount and have to do a correction bolus 2-3 hours later.

[lgvincent]

I often get hungry during an insulin reaction. I try to be sensible about it but sometimes I'll eat too much and run my blood sugar up. It isn't intentional Sometimes, even if I take small amounts of sugar my blood sugar will go high.

[sand-not-oil]

I carry a kids size mini can of Coke for hypos (quick recovery within a few minutes) it is a perfect size for putting in my bag, and it doesn't get squished or covered it bits like jelly babies would. I tried choccy bars and Cadbury's Boost with added glucose seems to be the quickest at hypo recovery (approx. 5 mins) if you want to go the choccy route, and who doesn't.

But I do always eat something else afterwards, because both of the above are quick fixes, but I do seem to go low again if I don't.

[dpav]

I have found that there are two main types of hypos. One is when we go low because of normal daily life and we can correct this low with normal amounts of glucose in foods. The other kind is caused by over correction of insulin. When we have more insulin reacting and brining us down on a constant basis we need much more food to counter that kind of reaction. The insulin is continuing to lower the blood sugar and we can counter for our level, but because we have extra insulin in us still reacting in our bodies we require extra foods to counter the extra insulin in us. This is the harder reaction to control. I have had both kinds. Extra exercise can add to the latter type of insulin reactions well. We take a correction or a simple bolus for our meals and we do more activity than we had planned and then we drop hard and stay low for an extended period of time. We might have bee able to correct our bolus to be much lower if we knew exactly what we would be doing all of the time. But this has been an experience for me. Fighting a low BG due to normalcy or fighting active insulin which continues to drop me as I continue on.

As far as treating reactions with normal foods, I have been using this new discovery for the past 4 decades. Nothing new to “old timer” diabetics just surprised that normal people are so ignorant that they feel this is new information that we might not already be well aware of.
Don