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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1469910" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Diabetics usually use something like lucozade, jelly babies, glucose tablets, or similar, because they want to get glucose into the bloodstream as quickly as possible.</p><p></p><p>So you can try those. They don't really work for me though - several reasons. The last thing I want is to spike too high afterwards, and I am in awe of anyone who can stop at just one or two jellybabies. I would just eat the whole pack... </p><p>I would also crave the sweet carbs afterwards.</p><p></p><p>My hypo treatments tend to be something like a couple of swigs of milk from the fridge, a 9Bar (16 g carbs, of which a small number are sugary, and the rest come in slow release nuts), or some chocolate. 70% choc, because that is all I ever have in the house. Or in my handbag. But then, I am a definite RHer, with very different needs from a type 1 diabetic. The benefit of all of these for me is that they contain a small amount of quick release carbs, with a followup of much slower release that follows, allowing my blood glucose to stabilise rather than bouncing.</p><p></p><p>Ideally, I would follow any hypo treatment with a proper meal, because I always find my blood glucose levels are unstable and jangly for a while after a hypo. At least a day. Sometimes more. So once I treat the hypo I go uber low carb, with good filling LC meals (cooked breakfast, steak and salad, roast chicken and veg... anything from the dietdoctor.com website recipes would do) for a while, because I don't want to give my body an excuse to throw another wobbly. lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1469910, member: 41816"] Diabetics usually use something like lucozade, jelly babies, glucose tablets, or similar, because they want to get glucose into the bloodstream as quickly as possible. So you can try those. They don't really work for me though - several reasons. The last thing I want is to spike too high afterwards, and I am in awe of anyone who can stop at just one or two jellybabies. I would just eat the whole pack... I would also crave the sweet carbs afterwards. My hypo treatments tend to be something like a couple of swigs of milk from the fridge, a 9Bar (16 g carbs, of which a small number are sugary, and the rest come in slow release nuts), or some chocolate. 70% choc, because that is all I ever have in the house. Or in my handbag. But then, I am a definite RHer, with very different needs from a type 1 diabetic. The benefit of all of these for me is that they contain a small amount of quick release carbs, with a followup of much slower release that follows, allowing my blood glucose to stabilise rather than bouncing. Ideally, I would follow any hypo treatment with a proper meal, because I always find my blood glucose levels are unstable and jangly for a while after a hypo. At least a day. Sometimes more. So once I treat the hypo I go uber low carb, with good filling LC meals (cooked breakfast, steak and salad, roast chicken and veg... anything from the dietdoctor.com website recipes would do) for a while, because I don't want to give my body an excuse to throw another wobbly. lol. [/QUOTE]
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