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<blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 425476" data-attributes="member: 16982"><p>The food in hospital is usually a joke for diabetics which does not help. Just spent three days inside, and bg's went higher than normal thanks to the NHS hospital diet of white bread and jam for breakfast, more bread for lunch (sandwiches) and tempting dinners such as pie with no veg (just a slice of pie on a plate) and sponge with custard for dessert. After two days they managed to get the dietician to provide me with the carb count of all the hospital meals but this was 2 days into a 3 day stay so for 2/3 of the time I was guessing my carbs. The nurses would ask me 'what's your insulin dose for your meals' and i'd have to explain time and time again that it DEPENDED. </p><p></p><p>Luckily they let me do all my own testing and injecting, suprising as I was at the famous hospital that was in the news about a couple of years ago because patients were being killed by someone going round injecting them with insulin, so all insulin is supposed to be kept under lock and key now. Which doesn't help us diabetics.</p><p></p><p>Anyway if I were you I'd definitely make a complaint and get it investigated. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the_anticarb, post: 425476, member: 16982"] The food in hospital is usually a joke for diabetics which does not help. Just spent three days inside, and bg's went higher than normal thanks to the NHS hospital diet of white bread and jam for breakfast, more bread for lunch (sandwiches) and tempting dinners such as pie with no veg (just a slice of pie on a plate) and sponge with custard for dessert. After two days they managed to get the dietician to provide me with the carb count of all the hospital meals but this was 2 days into a 3 day stay so for 2/3 of the time I was guessing my carbs. The nurses would ask me 'what's your insulin dose for your meals' and i'd have to explain time and time again that it DEPENDED. Luckily they let me do all my own testing and injecting, suprising as I was at the famous hospital that was in the news about a couple of years ago because patients were being killed by someone going round injecting them with insulin, so all insulin is supposed to be kept under lock and key now. Which doesn't help us diabetics. Anyway if I were you I'd definitely make a complaint and get it investigated. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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