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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leggott" data-source="post: 124284" data-attributes="member: 20065"><p>Hi,  After you've treated the hypo it best to do a blood check after 15 mins to check the blood level.  You may then want to give something slower realeasing like a banana in case the blood sugar drops further as it may be a long time before the next meal.  Having said that bananas are high in carb so you may find your child only needs a little bit otherwise too much may result in their blood sugar going too high.  You will  probably find in a child of that age you only need a small amount of sugar to correct a hypo.  I tend to give my kids jelly babies to treat a hypo and I find that one jelly baby which is 5g of carb will increase their blood by 3mmol.  Hope this helps. Leggott</p></blockquote><p></p>

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