prancer53
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- Location
- Hampshire
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
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- Professionals who know little about diabetes who generalise!!
Hi
I am new to the forum but have had diabetes (type 1) forever!! I am just wondering if anyone else has been told, as I was by practice diabetes nurse 2 days ago, that the reason I had an unexplained hypo was because I had eaten high carbohydrate food which contained fat which stopped glucose being absorbed by my body (at the risk of sounding facetious, could eating chocolate replace insulin injections in the future)?
My understanding is that fat (like protein) will only slow down absorption and that is why balanced meals, containing foods from all food groups, should always be eaten (unless ill or have no appetite).
Nurse also told me I should eat GI diet. When I looked it up I discovered that I eat a GI diet anyway but call it a low carbohydrate, balanced diet!!!!
GP told me that blood sugar came down rapidly because I ate sugary food however my understanding is that, because I inject insulin, my blood sugar would have gone up rapidly and stayed up for longer. If I was not diabetic my body would have produced more insulin to bring blood sugar back to a lower level and so possibly cause a rebound effect with the possibility of a hypo.
In my area, as in most I believe, care has been passed from hospital consultants to GP s; when this happened I was asked what I thought about it. My answer was indicative of my recently received responses as indicated above.
Has anyone else been advised that a) fat in food STOPS absorption of glucose and b) that eating high carbohydrate food. whilst taking insulin as a type 1, will induce or result in an episode of hypoglycaemia?
I am new to the forum but have had diabetes (type 1) forever!! I am just wondering if anyone else has been told, as I was by practice diabetes nurse 2 days ago, that the reason I had an unexplained hypo was because I had eaten high carbohydrate food which contained fat which stopped glucose being absorbed by my body (at the risk of sounding facetious, could eating chocolate replace insulin injections in the future)?
My understanding is that fat (like protein) will only slow down absorption and that is why balanced meals, containing foods from all food groups, should always be eaten (unless ill or have no appetite).
Nurse also told me I should eat GI diet. When I looked it up I discovered that I eat a GI diet anyway but call it a low carbohydrate, balanced diet!!!!
GP told me that blood sugar came down rapidly because I ate sugary food however my understanding is that, because I inject insulin, my blood sugar would have gone up rapidly and stayed up for longer. If I was not diabetic my body would have produced more insulin to bring blood sugar back to a lower level and so possibly cause a rebound effect with the possibility of a hypo.
In my area, as in most I believe, care has been passed from hospital consultants to GP s; when this happened I was asked what I thought about it. My answer was indicative of my recently received responses as indicated above.
Has anyone else been advised that a) fat in food STOPS absorption of glucose and b) that eating high carbohydrate food. whilst taking insulin as a type 1, will induce or result in an episode of hypoglycaemia?