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<blockquote data-quote="copepod" data-source="post: 739527" data-attributes="member: 21372"><p>Actually, being endurance events, triathlons, and Ironman distance, especially are the type of event when non-diabetics [or diabetics not on insulin or other medications - even those on metformin in this situation] can and do become hypoglycaemic. </p><p></p><p>I prefer endurance navigation events, competing or marshalling, which is why I was once faced with my then partner, a fit non-diabetic male who tended to lose a lot of salts in sweat, virtually collapse on the doorstep of a camping barn where we were staying while placing controls, indepently, on northern Lake District fells - he'd done more than me, on a very wet, cold & windy day, and he hadn't take enough food with him. I got him into a chair and started handing him hot drinks, sweet biscuits etc until he'd warmed up enough, raised his blood sugar and corrected his electrolyte balance. Then peeled off his clothes as his hands weren't working, to get him under a hot shower to warm up more, then change into warm dry clothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="copepod, post: 739527, member: 21372"] Actually, being endurance events, triathlons, and Ironman distance, especially are the type of event when non-diabetics [or diabetics not on insulin or other medications - even those on metformin in this situation] can and do become hypoglycaemic. I prefer endurance navigation events, competing or marshalling, which is why I was once faced with my then partner, a fit non-diabetic male who tended to lose a lot of salts in sweat, virtually collapse on the doorstep of a camping barn where we were staying while placing controls, indepently, on northern Lake District fells - he'd done more than me, on a very wet, cold & windy day, and he hadn't take enough food with him. I got him into a chair and started handing him hot drinks, sweet biscuits etc until he'd warmed up enough, raised his blood sugar and corrected his electrolyte balance. Then peeled off his clothes as his hands weren't working, to get him under a hot shower to warm up more, then change into warm dry clothing. [/QUOTE]
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