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<blockquote data-quote="WuTwo" data-source="post: 2020788" data-attributes="member: 87354"><p>My consultant (lovely lady) put it like this: "Your pancreas has stopped producing insulin. Think of insulin as the key that unlocks the energy in your cells, where the carbohydrates you eat store their sugar. Without the key - the insulin - your body cannot process the sugars in the food you eat, so your blood sugar goes up, and up, and up but you are getting no energy out of that food whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>Nearly all foods contain carbohydrates - all sugars, all wheat based, starch based foods. When a T1 eats those foods, they have to match the carb content to the amount of insulin they take, so that they process the carb and don't simply have sugars building up in their blood."</p><p></p><p>(That ignores the need for the background - basal - insulin but that is another story),</p><p></p><p>So yes, what your friend/relative says is right. Nearly every T1 is diagnosed with blood sugar at some truly appalling figure. Our blood sugar goes low when we have more insulin in our body (injected) than carbs for it to deal with. At those times we munch carbs in some form to take our bloods back up again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WuTwo, post: 2020788, member: 87354"] My consultant (lovely lady) put it like this: "Your pancreas has stopped producing insulin. Think of insulin as the key that unlocks the energy in your cells, where the carbohydrates you eat store their sugar. Without the key - the insulin - your body cannot process the sugars in the food you eat, so your blood sugar goes up, and up, and up but you are getting no energy out of that food whatsoever. Nearly all foods contain carbohydrates - all sugars, all wheat based, starch based foods. When a T1 eats those foods, they have to match the carb content to the amount of insulin they take, so that they process the carb and don't simply have sugars building up in their blood." (That ignores the need for the background - basal - insulin but that is another story), So yes, what your friend/relative says is right. Nearly every T1 is diagnosed with blood sugar at some truly appalling figure. Our blood sugar goes low when we have more insulin in our body (injected) than carbs for it to deal with. At those times we munch carbs in some form to take our bloods back up again. [/QUOTE]
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