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Things to eat/drink with low blood sugars

jordanhood

jordanhood

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
I've always taken the bog standard 1/4 bottle of lucozade whenever I go low, but since I've started my training programme and want to cut out fizzy drinks does anyone have a better suggestion? Even a non fizzy drink would be ok


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Them little individual portion sachets of sugar you get in supermarket cafe's. One of them and just pour it in your mouth. That's what I carry if I start to get a hypo. Even got a couple in my wallet. And they're free.
 
A jelly baby raises my BS by 1mmol/l really quickly, so always carry some with me.
 
Orange juice, Dextrose tablets, jelly babies ?
 
Individual bottles of glucojuice - it's syrupy, not unpleasant and certainly not fizzy
 
Thanks guys will try some of this out! I play a lot of competitive golf so I'm trying to find something that will bring my sugar up as quickly as possible so I can keep concentrating!


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Before I started pumping, most of my low bgs were dealt with some chocolate or fruit pastels but then being good, I switched to Lucozade to use indoors and bought jellybabies to use outside. I then switched to full sugar fizzy gingerbear to save money which worked just as good as Lucozade. Nowadays, I discovered by accident, that dried apricots are not only healthy but very good at raising bg levels up within 15mins. Two to three is all that is needed to lift me from 3mmol to 6mmol so I'm well happy

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Like I could stop at 3 dried apricots - the whole packet would be gone in the blink of an eye!

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Jelly Babies all the way.........:)
 
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