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Hospital stay

HurricaneHippo said:
Oh my goodness, that’s terrible. I can’t understand why they would do this. They’re medics, they’ll surely know how insulin, food, sugars etc etc work!!
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I would say the vast majority of medics on a general ward only know the absolute basics about any form of diabetes, their mantra is 'a person eats in accordance with the eatwell plate, they take insulin for it, if they take too 'much' and it goes low they eat again, if it then goes too high they take more insulin, the end'. They are not too concerned about yo yo'ing. It's true to a large extent of course as that is how it does work but they give no credence to managing it in other ways, ie avoidance entirely of the eatwell plate.
 
Whenever I or family members have had hospital stays in the UK, family members brought in food. There's usually some fridge space so that you can put labelled containers in. So, hard boiled eggs, greek yoghurt with berries, cheese?
 
Hi. Try to get friends/relatives to bring the right food in. Insist that you look after your own meds and insulin. Avoid Sliding-scale insulin management as many nurses don't manage it properly and hence it can be dangerous.
 
Daibell said:
Hi. Try to get friends/relatives to bring the right food in. Insist that you look after your own meds and insulin. Avoid Sliding-scale insulin management as many nurses don't manage it properly and hence it can be dangerous.
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Talking of Sliding Scale, I was put on one a few years ago and the nurses had no clue how to set it up. An alarm would blip every 30 minutes or so and the nurse, after trying to adjust it told me not to worry about it because it was probably faulty! And they didn’t have a spare anyway. I spent a worrying sleepless night. My BG remained in mid teens until after the procedure next day. Hospital stays would remain a nightmare for diabetics on insulin.
 
I have a list of foods to take from the days when I used to do long train journeys - apart from extracting the contents of their sandwiches there was usually nothing suitable for low carb on the train or at mid sized stations.
I know that none of my local hospitals provide anything suitable for breakfast - the private contractors go for the cheapest high carb sugar-full meals to keep profits up. Even their yogurts are mainly water with thickeners instead of all milk.

Nut butter balls keep well for a few days and don't need a fridge.
If you like it then plain biltong is a good source of protein.
If you have helpful visitors then hard boiled eggs kept in the shell will be fine for at least one night, providing breakfast.
Dried kale, or slightly higher carb but at least veg - dried veg 'crisps'.
 
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