- Messages
- 775
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
just wanted to post and share my experiences of a really hot holiday. I had suffered in the UK when it got hot and for the first time in my life feared going on holiday where it was really hot. The holiday temp. ranged between 30 & 40 in the shade and considerably hotter in the sun. I hope this will help anyone else who has had high BG readings when hot prepare.
First experience was that the first two days my BG was about 1-1.5 mmol above what I would consider my norm. But that normalised and after about three days I found that in general - nothing to do with food - my BG maintained good control. I put that down to being tired and no exercise on a long journey.
There were some problems though. The morning DP was much worse and longer than in the UK. I am not sure about how this DP thing works. On some days I had no breakfast at all - I was milling around - it was really hot and my BG maintained - no DP. On other days same thing but a near zero carb breakfast - within an hour I was +2mmol and difficult to get down within four hours.
Throughout the holiday I had to be really careful on what I ate. On a couple of days in the afternoon - no lunch - I was able to eat half a mars ice cream, my only holiday treat and little impact. Aside from that - didn't even have berries for desert - too high carbs.
Red wine - no help on DP. Tried a glass with dinner every evening. Pool did help sometimes - but not as well as I had hoped with DP. Afternoons and evenings, regardless of heat were fine.
BTW - since apply skin tac wipe with Libre - no plasters - two week in sun, sea, pool - no problem at all.
First experience was that the first two days my BG was about 1-1.5 mmol above what I would consider my norm. But that normalised and after about three days I found that in general - nothing to do with food - my BG maintained good control. I put that down to being tired and no exercise on a long journey.
There were some problems though. The morning DP was much worse and longer than in the UK. I am not sure about how this DP thing works. On some days I had no breakfast at all - I was milling around - it was really hot and my BG maintained - no DP. On other days same thing but a near zero carb breakfast - within an hour I was +2mmol and difficult to get down within four hours.
Throughout the holiday I had to be really careful on what I ate. On a couple of days in the afternoon - no lunch - I was able to eat half a mars ice cream, my only holiday treat and little impact. Aside from that - didn't even have berries for desert - too high carbs.
Red wine - no help on DP. Tried a glass with dinner every evening. Pool did help sometimes - but not as well as I had hoped with DP. Afternoons and evenings, regardless of heat were fine.
BTW - since apply skin tac wipe with Libre - no plasters - two week in sun, sea, pool - no problem at all.
)