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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 105730" data-attributes="member: 12578"><p>I hope your smilie, means that you are just being flippant.</p><p> Yes, dose adjustment enables you to eat more flexibly, and to be able to work out your insulin doses to 'cover' varying amounts and types of carbs. Nevertheless, you will find that larger doses are far less predictable and can result in higher blood glucose levels than expected. To much insulin can also lead to insulin resistance and it is a not unknown for people with type 1 to develop so much insulin resistance that they diabetes becomes more like type 2 (this is sometimes called double diabetes.)</p><p>I think that the idea of DAFNE is that you should be able to eat 'normally', and not be tied to the old fixed patterns of meal times and amounts. Common sense suggests that as a person with diabetes you try to at least eat a 'healthy diet' most of the time. The occasional non healthy food whether it's choc bar, sausage roll or packet of crisps won't do you much harm, but they're not good for anyone as the basis for a diet.</p><p></p><p></p><p> No idea but you would be making things very complicated and I think it would make any sort of stable level difficult to achieve, the calculations could be confusing .You need to take into account how much insulin is already in your system, The duration of insulin action can be as much as 5 hours.If 2 doses ovelap, their effects overlap too. Too much insulin and the result can be ahypo.</p><p> </p><p>This chart shows how an insulin pump calculates the insulin remaining after just 1 bolus. If you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 105730, member: 12578"] I hope your smilie, means that you are just being flippant. Yes, dose adjustment enables you to eat more flexibly, and to be able to work out your insulin doses to 'cover' varying amounts and types of carbs. Nevertheless, you will find that larger doses are far less predictable and can result in higher blood glucose levels than expected. To much insulin can also lead to insulin resistance and it is a not unknown for people with type 1 to develop so much insulin resistance that they diabetes becomes more like type 2 (this is sometimes called double diabetes.) I think that the idea of DAFNE is that you should be able to eat 'normally', and not be tied to the old fixed patterns of meal times and amounts. Common sense suggests that as a person with diabetes you try to at least eat a 'healthy diet' most of the time. The occasional non healthy food whether it's choc bar, sausage roll or packet of crisps won't do you much harm, but they're not good for anyone as the basis for a diet. No idea but you would be making things very complicated and I think it would make any sort of stable level difficult to achieve, the calculations could be confusing .You need to take into account how much insulin is already in your system, The duration of insulin action can be as much as 5 hours.If 2 doses ovelap, their effects overlap too. Too much insulin and the result can be ahypo. This chart shows how an insulin pump calculates the insulin remaining after just 1 bolus. If you [/QUOTE]
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