Jayden2407
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Thank you!
I haven’t tried the cereal bars, it is any of them?!
Also how many haribos do you have?
A few hypo treatments I have used are cereal bars,Capri suns,Haribos jellies and gluco juice (not gonna lie gluco juice tastes pretty rank)
You would need to check the nutritional info on the sports drink and see how many grams of carbs are in each 100ml. You are aiming for aprox 20g of carbs to get the BG up to a normal levelHi
They don’t look very nice either!
Thank you I will go for the jelly babies - and make sure that he has the right amount to avoid a spike.
Also going to try the sports drink - what ml would you recommend to cover the right amount of glucose?
Liquids will have to be bought after security but I am not aware of any limitation on solid foods through security.We go on holiday next week, all his snacks and hypo treatment I will have to buy once through customs won’t I?
Hi @Jayden2407, My wife declines to treat me with fluid stuff if I am laying in bed when hypo (fortunately very very rare) as she has had me dribble, spit and also vomit it out. This is NOT the way to impress Mum or Dad but then again you may not be in control of what you are doing. Mum, you do not need a full HAZMAT suit but a towel or two might be a wise precaution !
The glucose gels, though a little pricey, do a better job (agreeing with @helensaramay).
Anything with sucrose (table sugar) in it can work but is not good long term for teeth.
Glucose jelly beans may be OK too.
The greatest fear I have is something going down into my windpipe (going down the wrong way), so if I cannot be sit up and/or be co-operative, or appear to be unresponsive The Glucagon Injection Kit (TGIK) of the orange colour comes out.
My wife has threatened to use the biggest horse needle with which to inject me, but fortunately the needle of the syringe into which the glucagon powder is mixed with fluid has the needle fused to the syringe. Glucagon is on script I think in UK, and certainly in Australia !!
Hopefully some further tweaking of diet and insulin will make these hypos you are experiencing less common.
Best Wishes to you, Mum and Dad !!
It needs to be quickly absorbed sugar until his levels are up - and the carb snack should ONLY be given when his levels are back up. My diabetes team has a good moan last time I was in about A&E giving a lady sweet tea and biscuits when her levels dropped and then wondering why they couldn't get them up. Sugar, make sure levels are up and wait at least 10 mins before eating the carbs.
I have haribos and orange juice cartons in the car and both work quickly for me. I can usually tell if I'm heading low - in which case it's 3 x haribos - or if I'm already at the shaky stage then the OJ hits quickly.
Maybe 2 or 3 rich tea biscuits as a follow up as they are only around 3g of carb per biscuit? AND when his sugars are back up to normal!
15 to 20gs, 3 or 4 JBs
I'm old school. Milk has saved me more than once back in the day from a waking hypo..
Have you tried Fizzers or Love Hearts
@helensaramay they seem to work for me I get the rice crispies ones or squares (marshmallow and rice crispies)Do cereal bars work?
My expectation is that the carbs would be digested too slowly. But I have never tried them.
@Jayden2407 i use the rice crispies cereal bar or sqaures which is a cereal bar with rice crispies and marshmallow for the haribos i would use the individual small packs which have 16g of sweets in themThank you!
I haven’t tried the cereal bars, it is any of them?!
Also how many haribos do you have?
The extra carbs are only to keep him going longer term as the fast acting carbs tend to drop quickerYes we only give the biscuit once levels are back up. I will try a couple of biscuits as just the one I have noticed doesn’t bring up massively- only usually to about 4.5?
Liquids will have to be bought after security but I am not aware of any limitation on solid foods through security.
You can pack some in your case. However, I am always nervous about whether my case will make it to the other end at the same time as I.
Definitely, absolutely definitely, do not put insulin in the case - the temperature in the hold is very cold and this will kill the insulin.
And remember to take twice as much of everything (including insulin pens) as you think you will need plus spare batteries for your meter and a letter from your doctor.
(Sorry, if you know this but I thought I would reiterate, just in case.)
I use different sweets, according to fancy. At the moment it's salty licqorice, but as your son is not Dutch he'll probably thinks you're trying to kill him if you try that on him.
Why not visit the sweet store with him and let him pick what sweets he likes?
You then take a look at how many carbs in glucose tablets he usually needs, check the back of preferred sweets for carbs/100 gram, figure out how many grams he'd need of it and weigh out hypo-portions.
And I love fresh fruit for a mild hypo.
Hi
what ml would you recommend to cover the right amount of glucose?
@Jayden2407 i use the rice crispies cereal bar or sqaures which is a cereal bar with rice crispies and marshmallow for the haribos i would use the individual small packs which have 16g of sweets in them
if its the still isotonic stuff, then 250ml has the right amount of carbs for a hypo, which is between 15 and 20g....
Thank youmilk? To treat a hypo? I didn’t know that, my son likes milk too so will give him the option.
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