Oranges

Shell1

Shell1

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Prob silly question my daughters on the pump and keeps wanting to bolus for oranges without a meal will this give a massieve spike then make her hypo-being thats its fast sugar or shud i give it her and not bolus as will be out of her system in bout hour .up to now i wont let her have one without a meal


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iHs

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Difficult to give the correct advice tbh as you've only just started pumping. Unless you have a go at giving the bolus for the orange, you wont know whether you've done right or wrong.

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iHs

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If the orange is being eaten 2hrs after a meal bolus then some of the meal bolus will still be active so might be safer to give 50% of the bolus instead of 100% but it all also depends on what the bg ranges are from one meal to another

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JustDomUK

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It will also depend on your daughters response to Orange. I'm on a pump and they don't spike me. I do tend to eat them before exercise though. Is she active?
 
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Children crave sweet things as they are growing. They need the energy to grow hence why their tastes change. Fruit is a healthy way to give them that. If your child is very active then I see no harm in the fruit on its own. Have you settings on the pump for when she exercises? Eg reduction of basal an hour before? I usually apply the same reduction percentage to a bolus if eating fruit then exercising.
 
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