I always treat a hypo with lucozade (or any sweet drink)) as it acts extremely quickly to raise sugar levels to be where they should be, but I would then have half a sandwich or something similar to ensure sugars do not drop again.
My father had Type 1 and I remember coming home from playing outside after school for dinner and he would be at the kitchen table doing his injection with the old glass and metal syringes which he would have boiled in a pot first to steralise.
He never once moaned about it and just got on with...