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<blockquote data-quote="In Response" data-source="post: 2689426" data-attributes="member: 527103"><p>The reason for the eating before and after is that our livers don't like alcohol an sees it as poison that it needs to purge before doing anything else. </p><p>As a result, when we drink, our liver may stop dripping glucose which works with our basal insulin until it has cleared the toxic alcohol. </p><p>So, it is less likely that you will end up in the 20s - a night time hypo after drinking is more common than when not. </p><p></p><p>I am not a big drinking but certainly don't refrain. </p><p>But I realised I have to balance the carbs in the drink against the possibility of a night time hypo. </p><p>I find wine is best for me - it contains little carbs so I don't have to worry about insulin for it when drinking but I still need to make sure I am ready for the shenanigans from my liver during the night. There are two ways for doing this - less insulin or more carbs. The latter is the easiest, especially when you are on fixed doses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="In Response, post: 2689426, member: 527103"] The reason for the eating before and after is that our livers don't like alcohol an sees it as poison that it needs to purge before doing anything else. As a result, when we drink, our liver may stop dripping glucose which works with our basal insulin until it has cleared the toxic alcohol. So, it is less likely that you will end up in the 20s - a night time hypo after drinking is more common than when not. I am not a big drinking but certainly don't refrain. But I realised I have to balance the carbs in the drink against the possibility of a night time hypo. I find wine is best for me - it contains little carbs so I don't have to worry about insulin for it when drinking but I still need to make sure I am ready for the shenanigans from my liver during the night. There are two ways for doing this - less insulin or more carbs. The latter is the easiest, especially when you are on fixed doses. [/QUOTE]
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