Essential emergency supplies?

I always have glucose tabs hana and I also keep a cereal bar or digestives on my bedside table. I am fortunate enough not to have had a serious hypo (yet) but have had one in the night before and it's no fun. I have always been aware of what's going on and able to treat myself (thank God).

I would imagine if hubby is type 1 and having night hypo's like last night that you would be able to get hypo stop on prescription? It would be worth asking docs.

Caitycakes x

Both hubby and me being T1 diabetics, we use mainly jelly babies, we’ve also got hypostop which now called glucogel, we also gluogen injections…

I personally think that the norms of jelly babies, glucose tabs, luccozade are the best ones, as the glucogel tastes foul to say the least…

I think in your predicament last nite, the glucogen injection would have been inappropriate, as hubby really wasn’t out of it enough to be really fair in injecting it, as he was able to sallow fluids… Which is the better option if possible to give oral glucose as the gluogen injection is a hormone based injection that makes the liver dump it’s full store into the blood system… The side effect of this is that not only can it make the diabetic feel sick when they come around.

But because it’s dumped the whole of the liver store into the blood, this poses a couple of problems, one being too much glucose in the system that might need correcting, but it puts the diabetic as risk for a while, while the liver is replenishing it’s stores it can’t supply any more into the system which puts the diabetic at a higher risk of suffering a follow on hypo and if they do it is a lot harder to treat this hypo…

Hana

Hypostop or Glucogel as it is now called is great stuff for dealing with hypos in the night. I have been bought round many times now with hypostop by my other half when in bed and completely gone to the world, covered with sweat and muttering complete nonsense. My partner is able to squirt some hypostop inside my mouth along my gums and then wait for its buccal action to be absorbed. When I start to come back to life, he then gives me some lucozade in a babies drinking mug so that it doesn't get tipped everywhere. I then eat a bit of biscuit and that sees me through til morning. I do have a Glucogon injection which I bought in the mid 80's. It's still in our cupboard lol. It consists of a bottle of saline and glucose powder which has to be mixed together using a disposable syringe. The stuff that can be bought or prescribed nowadays comes as premixed but will have a shelf life and is expensive.

i have gluco tabs in my bag and next to the bed, these will keep me going till i feel better, i have had glucogel before but it tastes horrid

Flat - glucose tabs/glucogel/lucozade/Coke.
Car - glucose tabs/glucogel/Coke/Jelly Babies.
Walking - one or two of the above.
I love Jelly Babies, I once could eat a whole bag at time........bliss. Now they are in my Hypo kit and untouchable.

Ken