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Stupid me!

SophiaW

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Pump
Jess has had a temperature since Sunday night, her brother had the same thing on Thursday last week and was sent home from school. Last week I bought a new bottle of Calpol and in my rush and discussing something else with the pharmacist I stupidly forgot to pay attention to what I was buying, I ended up with the orange flavour instead of the usual strawberry. When Jess developed her temperature late Sunday night I gave her the Calpol no problem. Woke up Monday morning with a high reading of 16 mmol/L. Thought it must be the temperature playing hovoc with her readings so didn't think too much of it, did the usual correction etc. Only by late Monday afternoon did I realise that the Calpol was not a sugar free version. No wonder her readings had been bouncing all over the place through Monday. Can't believe I was so stupid to not check what I was giving her! We are back in control again
 
ahhh dont beat urself up weve all done it and thought afterwards how silly we were i did it with fruit shoot it wasnt the no added sugar version and i never checked once not made the mistake againt tho.
easily done hope she feels better soon

anna marie
 
I don't think there is an option to buy medication with sugar here. All paracetamol, nurofen, antihistamines are all sugar free. Here I was thinking this would be the world over.
 
Jen I think they are not very thoughtful about sugar free stuff here. I had to have some liquid medication for oral thrush a while ago, I went to 3 chemists, Boots and independent one and Manor Pharmacy which is also a chain I think, with the prescription and none of them could find the sugar free version on their systems, they did not think it was made any more.
So 4 times a day I had to have this sugary stuff, it can't have been good for my teeth let alone my blood sugar levels.

And I would imagine people with diabetes are the main group of people who get oral thrush, so you'd expect a sugar free version.

It tasted really foul though, so possibly it would have been unbearable if it was sugar free.
 
Sophia,

Do not beat yourself up over it. I have been diabetic for over 20 years now and still manage to pick up non sugar-free drinks every now and then. It happens!

At least you are checking her levels regularly so picked it up quickly. No harm done.

Hope she is feeling better now!
 
Thanks Yes she is feeling better now, she was back at school yesterday and her readings are back to normal.
 
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