I am representing my brother on this forum. I am on here as he has mental capacity issues and has been T2 for several years.
His GP has issued a blood test form in readiness for his "yearly" coronary heart disease review. This requires fasting from 22;00 until sometime after 09:00 when he can get in the chair at the blood test centre
He usually eats a light snack around 20:00 His regular BS result around 16:30 is 10.8, when the District nurse also injects the 10 ? units of slow and fast acting novomix insulin. Typically fasting BS is 6 to 7, at around 8:00 before eating.
My concern is that he will not get to eat anything for in excess 13 hours.
He lives alone, in sheltered housing. There is an emergency tag on him at all times. However unless he is awake and can work out he maybe having a hypo, he cannot call for help. And that help is a paramedic.
I have thought of requesting the evening insulin injection to be with held.
A further idea is to get him to take one of the emergency high sugar tablets when he goes to bed at 8 30
Any guidance will be very much appreciated
His GP has issued a blood test form in readiness for his "yearly" coronary heart disease review. This requires fasting from 22;00 until sometime after 09:00 when he can get in the chair at the blood test centre
He usually eats a light snack around 20:00 His regular BS result around 16:30 is 10.8, when the District nurse also injects the 10 ? units of slow and fast acting novomix insulin. Typically fasting BS is 6 to 7, at around 8:00 before eating.
My concern is that he will not get to eat anything for in excess 13 hours.
He lives alone, in sheltered housing. There is an emergency tag on him at all times. However unless he is awake and can work out he maybe having a hypo, he cannot call for help. And that help is a paramedic.
I have thought of requesting the evening insulin injection to be with held.
A further idea is to get him to take one of the emergency high sugar tablets when he goes to bed at 8 30
Any guidance will be very much appreciated