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<blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 2335928" data-attributes="member: 345386"><p>But surely in the insulin dependent person, the amounts of insulin injected are governed by underlying blood glucose, eating/drinking in prospect, exercise, hormonal issues, carb counting and all the rest.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate that taking all of those things into account several times a day must be brain frying, but by and large, surely the major factors are carb ratios/prospective, historic eating/drinking and current blood glucose numbers. For low carbers, I believe there is a consideration that smaller amounts of insulin are likely to lead to "smaller" erros, but of course, I have no personal experience of this.</p><p></p><p>So, extremely simplistically, if an individual's blood glucose is 6, they intend eating 20gr carb, with a ration 1:10, they take 2 units, then review a while later? If they have no idea about carb counting or ratios, then it is more of a lottery.</p><p></p><p>Of course, I am massively, hugely over simplifying things.</p><p></p><p>As I read it, for T1 (and others in a similar position), hypos are part of life's rich pattern. How much the individual person then depends on their liver to rescue them is just as individual as they are, I'm sure. The good old Dirty Harry saying "Do you feel lucky ****?" comes to mind if they intend to serially allow their liver to save them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCUKMod, post: 2335928, member: 345386"] But surely in the insulin dependent person, the amounts of insulin injected are governed by underlying blood glucose, eating/drinking in prospect, exercise, hormonal issues, carb counting and all the rest. I appreciate that taking all of those things into account several times a day must be brain frying, but by and large, surely the major factors are carb ratios/prospective, historic eating/drinking and current blood glucose numbers. For low carbers, I believe there is a consideration that smaller amounts of insulin are likely to lead to "smaller" erros, but of course, I have no personal experience of this. So, extremely simplistically, if an individual's blood glucose is 6, they intend eating 20gr carb, with a ration 1:10, they take 2 units, then review a while later? If they have no idea about carb counting or ratios, then it is more of a lottery. Of course, I am massively, hugely over simplifying things. As I read it, for T1 (and others in a similar position), hypos are part of life's rich pattern. How much the individual person then depends on their liver to rescue them is just as individual as they are, I'm sure. The good old Dirty Harry saying "Do you feel lucky ****?" comes to mind if they intend to serially allow their liver to save them. [/QUOTE]
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