hospital food

[dbr10]

I'm type 1 and my worst experience was when lunch was greatly delayed one day and I became hypo. The orderly refused to give me a very helpful looking pudding because I was a diabetic.
I hadn't got enough brain left to argue!

Diabetics aren't safe in hospital.

 

[Tannith]

Association Between Hyperglycemia and Increased Hospital Mortality ...
inpatient.aace.com/sites/all/pdf/Krinsley-2003-78-1471-1478.pdf
by JS KRINSLEY - ‎2003 - ‎Cited by 1185 - ‎Related articles
in a Heterogeneous Population of Critically Ill Patients. JAMES STEPHEN ... personal use. Mass reproduce only with permission from Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
This is about how keeping blood sugars below 140 in very sick hospital patients reduces their mortality very considerably.