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<blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 386507" data-attributes="member: 57211"><p>Okay, Phoenix, I acknowledge that my last question was posed AS IF I were addressing the authors of the kind of document you first gave a link to. (Of course, those authors are not reading this.) And now you're just referring me to more of the same.</p><p></p><p>But the point of my last question remains the same. For this is the initial part of the relevant passage of my first posting in this thread: "If I began to have a hypo during the night, my mother would hear this. She would quickly grab some granulated sugar and a cup of water. And she'd dip her fingers into the water, and then into the sugar. She would then brush that sugar across my lips." (And I've just been speaking to my now 92-year-old mother about the occasions on which she did this, incidentally. She emphasises that she'd have to be careful not to get her fingers bitten.) </p><p></p><p>Please note the first few words: "If I began to have a hypo during the night, ....". But the first document referred to in your last posting uses these words: "If a person is already unconscious due to a SEVERE hypo, they need to be put into the recovery position. ... Never try to put food into the mouth [etc.]". (The emphasis is my own.)</p><p></p><p>I was expressly only talking about the ONSET of a hypo whilst asleep. (I was certainly unconscious on these occasions, however.) But the article you referred to MAKES NO ALLOWANCE for any such onset. The standard advice seems to be all just black and white.</p><p></p><p>Accordingly, either the authors are stupid, or they effectively believe that anyone who reads it must be taken to be stupid, and should not be encouraged to use their common sense.</p><p></p><p>So the point of the question I asked at the end of my last posting was really to highlight that severe shortcoming of the standard advice.</p><p></p><p>As for the people who use this website, are they to be discouraged from using their common sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michaeldavid, post: 386507, member: 57211"] Okay, Phoenix, I acknowledge that my last question was posed AS IF I were addressing the authors of the kind of document you first gave a link to. (Of course, those authors are not reading this.) And now you're just referring me to more of the same. But the point of my last question remains the same. For this is the initial part of the relevant passage of my first posting in this thread: "If I began to have a hypo during the night, my mother would hear this. She would quickly grab some granulated sugar and a cup of water. And she'd dip her fingers into the water, and then into the sugar. She would then brush that sugar across my lips." (And I've just been speaking to my now 92-year-old mother about the occasions on which she did this, incidentally. She emphasises that she'd have to be careful not to get her fingers bitten.) Please note the first few words: "If I began to have a hypo during the night, ....". But the first document referred to in your last posting uses these words: "If a person is already unconscious due to a SEVERE hypo, they need to be put into the recovery position. ... Never try to put food into the mouth [etc.]". (The emphasis is my own.) I was expressly only talking about the ONSET of a hypo whilst asleep. (I was certainly unconscious on these occasions, however.) But the article you referred to MAKES NO ALLOWANCE for any such onset. The standard advice seems to be all just black and white. Accordingly, either the authors are stupid, or they effectively believe that anyone who reads it must be taken to be stupid, and should not be encouraged to use their common sense. So the point of the question I asked at the end of my last posting was really to highlight that severe shortcoming of the standard advice. As for the people who use this website, are they to be discouraged from using their common sense? [/QUOTE]
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