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Hypo treatments and hot places

Ziggy2017

Ziggy2017

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Hi everyone I’m going to Majorca next Wednesday and I wondering about hypo treatments I have gluco juice which I normally carry around but as I will be in a hot place I can’t imagine it would be very pleasant to drink so would you mind recommending some treatments that won’t get hot or melt etc thank you
 
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If you can find them, fun size bags of Bassett's Jelly Babies. I haven't been able to find them for ages, so now use Asda's mini jelly babies.
One bag of Bassett's is 16g carbs, so perfect for hypos. Unfortunately Asda's mini jelly babies come in slightly larger bags but I found that one sweet is 3g carbs, therefore 5 sweets for a hypo.

When I couldn't find either of those, I just bought Rowntrees fruit pastilles.
 
dancer said:
If you can find them, fun size bags of Bassett's Jelly Babies. I haven't been able to find them for ages, so now use Asda's mini jelly babies.
One bag of Bassett's is 16g carbs, so perfect for hypos. Unfortunately Asda's mini jelly babies come in slightly larger bags but I found that one sweet is 3g carbs, therefore 5 sweets for a hypo.

When I couldn't find either of those, I just bought Rowntrees fruit pastilles.
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Yeah great idea I never thought of jellies thanks for the advice
 
I use jelly babies myself. Left a bag in my car last week, had a hypo in work, went to the car and the bag of jelly babies was just one big jelly blob. Had a bite, which seemed to work and threw the rest of the blob away
 
I suppose it depends on how hot it gets. I carry jelly babies around with me in Italy where it's been as high as 40 degrees and they've remained single babies.
 
dancer said:
I suppose it depends on how hot it gets. I carry jelly babies around with me in Italy where it's been as high as 40 degrees and they've remained single babies.
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I have no clue how hot it will be but I’d say probably 30-40 degrees I’ll definitely get some jelly babies for the trip
 
porl69 said:
I use jelly babies myself. Left a bag in my car last week, had a hypo in work, went to the car and the bag of jelly babies was just one big jelly blob. Had a bite, which seemed to work and threw the rest of the blob away
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Lol a jelly blob :)
 
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