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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2120923" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, KesLouise, that's a perfectly sensible question!</p><p></p><p>Although 4.5 is not technically hypo, with strip testing alone, you don't know if it's a stable 4.5 or still heading down. </p><p></p><p>If you were to do another bg test, and it shows lower, or if you had tested a while before the 4.5 and it was higher, those would be good clues that it's not a stable 4.5 and is heading down to hypo land, so there would definitely be a case for some glucose to tail off the drop.</p><p></p><p>How much glucose to take depends on a few things. If your last bolus, fast acting shot was more then, say, 4 to 5 hrs ago, there's unlikely to be any fast acting still pulling you down, so a couple of dextrotabs, about 6g, may be enough to pin the drop without sending you too high.</p><p></p><p>Whereas if you've injected fast acting within the last couple of hours, that'll still be dragging you down, so a fair bit more might be needed, say 10 to 15g.</p><p></p><p>It's difficult to be definite about amounts - it's one of the skills a T1 needs to learn, how to pin a drop without sending it sky high.</p><p></p><p>If you end up getting libre or cgm, it's much easier to make judgment calls on this sort of thing. You can see how slowly/rapidly the trace is dropping which tells you how much is needed to pin it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2120923, member: 374531"] Hi, KesLouise, that's a perfectly sensible question! Although 4.5 is not technically hypo, with strip testing alone, you don't know if it's a stable 4.5 or still heading down. If you were to do another bg test, and it shows lower, or if you had tested a while before the 4.5 and it was higher, those would be good clues that it's not a stable 4.5 and is heading down to hypo land, so there would definitely be a case for some glucose to tail off the drop. How much glucose to take depends on a few things. If your last bolus, fast acting shot was more then, say, 4 to 5 hrs ago, there's unlikely to be any fast acting still pulling you down, so a couple of dextrotabs, about 6g, may be enough to pin the drop without sending you too high. Whereas if you've injected fast acting within the last couple of hours, that'll still be dragging you down, so a fair bit more might be needed, say 10 to 15g. It's difficult to be definite about amounts - it's one of the skills a T1 needs to learn, how to pin a drop without sending it sky high. If you end up getting libre or cgm, it's much easier to make judgment calls on this sort of thing. You can see how slowly/rapidly the trace is dropping which tells you how much is needed to pin it. [/QUOTE]
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