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<blockquote data-quote="SophiaW" data-source="post: 284004" data-attributes="member: 13451"><p>Watch out for salad dressings as some can contain a fair bit of sugar which will cause a spike. For a salad dressing our family uses a bit of drizzled olive oil, a teeny bit of white balsamic vinegar and a grinding of black pepper. Also be careful of pickled foods as they often contain a lot of sugar, you didn't say if the beetroot was fresh or pickled. How long before you ate did you do the injection? I remember when my daughter was on Novomix 30 we were told to do the injection about 10 to 20 minutes before her meal, if your reading is already high before eating then waiting the 20 minutes is probably a good idea but check with your doctor first that he/she is happy for you to do that. Testing an hour after you ate might mean that the carbs have affected your blood glucose before the insulin has had a chance to start working, if you test at about 2 hours the reading should hopefully have started to come down at that point. Also bear in mind that when you have an already high reading before the meal then you can be more insulin resistent and the injected insulin could take longer to start being effective and you may need a little more insulin compared to if you ate the same meal but with a much lower starting reading. Have you been given any rapid acting insulin to use for correcting high readings? If you increase your mixed insulin to try and correct the high reading then you have the problem of at the same time increasing the background insulin because they're mixed together. We were given Novorapid to use for correcting high readings when my daughter was using Novomix 30. As for whether 24g of carbs is high I'm not sure how to answer that. My daughter is not following a low carb diet and she can comfortably eat that amount of carbs provided her insulin is adjusted to cover those carbs. She is a type 1 so I'm not sure how you being type 1.5 will differ so I can't offer any advice on that but to me 24g doesn't sound like a lot unless it mostly came from quick acting carbs like sugar in salad dressings and pickled beetroot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SophiaW, post: 284004, member: 13451"] Watch out for salad dressings as some can contain a fair bit of sugar which will cause a spike. For a salad dressing our family uses a bit of drizzled olive oil, a teeny bit of white balsamic vinegar and a grinding of black pepper. Also be careful of pickled foods as they often contain a lot of sugar, you didn't say if the beetroot was fresh or pickled. How long before you ate did you do the injection? I remember when my daughter was on Novomix 30 we were told to do the injection about 10 to 20 minutes before her meal, if your reading is already high before eating then waiting the 20 minutes is probably a good idea but check with your doctor first that he/she is happy for you to do that. Testing an hour after you ate might mean that the carbs have affected your blood glucose before the insulin has had a chance to start working, if you test at about 2 hours the reading should hopefully have started to come down at that point. Also bear in mind that when you have an already high reading before the meal then you can be more insulin resistent and the injected insulin could take longer to start being effective and you may need a little more insulin compared to if you ate the same meal but with a much lower starting reading. Have you been given any rapid acting insulin to use for correcting high readings? If you increase your mixed insulin to try and correct the high reading then you have the problem of at the same time increasing the background insulin because they're mixed together. We were given Novorapid to use for correcting high readings when my daughter was using Novomix 30. As for whether 24g of carbs is high I'm not sure how to answer that. My daughter is not following a low carb diet and she can comfortably eat that amount of carbs provided her insulin is adjusted to cover those carbs. She is a type 1 so I'm not sure how you being type 1.5 will differ so I can't offer any advice on that but to me 24g doesn't sound like a lot unless it mostly came from quick acting carbs like sugar in salad dressings and pickled beetroot. [/QUOTE]
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