Injecting Insulin Just After Eating?

db89 said:

Yes it's possible and sometimes practicably unavoidable in, for instance, restaurants when you don't know the carb count of what's coming beforehand. Sometimes it can be used to advantage if there is more fat than carbs in a meal in an effort to match the delayed blood glucose rise.

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helensaramay said:

Absolutely.
The reason we inject before we eat is to avoid a spike where the carbs in the food are converted to sugar in our blood before the insulin starts working.
But different food convert at different rates so unless we test for everything with every possible combination (adding fat to a meal can slow down the absorption of the carbs, for example), it will be a conservative timing approximation.
By delaying the injection until after the meal, your son may experience a longer spike than usual but in the grand scheme of things, doing this once is not going to have a long term affect.

If you want to minimise this you could split his insulin dose: have a small amount before the meal and then top up afterwards when you know how much he has eaten.
This is what I usually do but it is a bit of a faff.

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porl69 said:

WOW Pizza and rice. Going for the difficult foods first
Of course you can inject after you eat. as @helensaramay has said we inject beforehand to try and stop the BG spikes after we eat. I would also suggest a small bolus before eating then carb count and inject the balance. Again keep a close eye on Jaydens BG's . You got this under wraps

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