this may well be a stupid question. apologies if it is.
the other night my boy injected novorapid instead of levimir by mistake. we worked out that we needed to get about 160g of carbs into him to counteract the dosage.
now....if i give him glucose tabs or lucozade, i know that these contain very fast acting carbs. i also know that bread, cereal bars, bagels etc contain slower acting carbs.
my question is this.....do the faster acting carbs get 'used up' and dissappear quicker than the slower ones, or is a carb a carb? basically, could i give him 160g of quick release, or do i need to give him slow release too because the quick release ones will dissappear quicker?
if i fill him full of glucose tabs and lucozade up to 160g, will those 160g just sit in the blood till the insulin has balanced out the equation, or do they 'dissappear' over time and need to be replaced by slower release carbs while the insulin is still working?
for the record....i mixed it up over about 45 minutes, and it worked fine, but he was so full he felt horrible. he had already had his dinner and was certainly not hungry. it would have been easier to just drink a load of lucozade, but i wasn't sure
jonesy
the other night my boy injected novorapid instead of levimir by mistake. we worked out that we needed to get about 160g of carbs into him to counteract the dosage.
now....if i give him glucose tabs or lucozade, i know that these contain very fast acting carbs. i also know that bread, cereal bars, bagels etc contain slower acting carbs.
my question is this.....do the faster acting carbs get 'used up' and dissappear quicker than the slower ones, or is a carb a carb? basically, could i give him 160g of quick release, or do i need to give him slow release too because the quick release ones will dissappear quicker?
if i fill him full of glucose tabs and lucozade up to 160g, will those 160g just sit in the blood till the insulin has balanced out the equation, or do they 'dissappear' over time and need to be replaced by slower release carbs while the insulin is still working?
for the record....i mixed it up over about 45 minutes, and it worked fine, but he was so full he felt horrible. he had already had his dinner and was certainly not hungry. it would have been easier to just drink a load of lucozade, but i wasn't sure
jonesy