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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1080669" data-attributes="member: 32394">If it works for you, it works. But I've been told that milk and chocolate are too low GI to use to treat a hypo - I think the fat content slows down the sugar, so it takes much longer to work than dextrose tablets/lucozade. Saying that, I often use just brown sugar, which is also apparently much slower than dextrose. So, whatever works, I just thought it was worth mentioning on a thread about what should you take to treat a hypo. What we actually take might be legitimately different, for, you know, reasons of being a real life person living a real life life!I like the glucojuice things, they are perfectly portioned out, work really quickly & you get to down it like you are doing a shot of syrup. They are expensive though - £1.30 ish.If you are desperate to use sweets, fruit pastilles (?sp) were recommended to me. But I have only used once or twice, because I tend to eat the whole packet!</blockquote>

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