What do you eat for hypos? Which is your frecuency?

[Alejem93]

Hi everyone! I would like to know what do you eat to manage hypos and how manye times per day or per week do you have to eat this "extra" to treat or prevent the hypos.

Thank you very much!!

Alejandro

 

[Zhnyaka]

Usually I just eat sugar, sweet tea or juice, my cgm notifies me when my bg is around 4.5. Sometimes I eat banana, chocolate or dried mango, but most often it's still sugar (5-10g) or sweet tea, so it rarely comes to a strong hypo. Below 2, my bg happens every few months.

 

[RoughcutAU]

The tried and true Glucojel Jelly Beans. I can go weeks without dropping below 3.9 then (like lately)- it can be a couple times a day.

 

[JAT1]

Raw apple. 50 grams if around 4mmol, 100 grams if below 3.4mmol, very very rare for me to get below that. Usually I'm above 5mmol after 15 minutes.

 

[Alejem93]

Thanks for your answer guys!! Very helpful

 

[Alejem93]

Usually I just eat sugar, sweet tea or juice, my cgm notifies me when my bg is around 4.5. Sometimes I eat banana, chocolate or dried mango, but most often it's still sugar (5-10g) or sweet tea, so it rarely comes to a strong hypo. Below 2, my bg happens every few months.

Hi! thanks for your response. How often do you have to eat sugar/tea/juice etc? (not strong hypo, just to regulate)

 

[Zhnyaka]

Hi! thanks for your response. How often do you have to eat sugar/tea/juice etc? (not strong hypo, just to regulate)

Sometimes several times a day, sometimes every few days.

 

[Matt2023]

My tried and tested method when at home is corn flakes, milk and sugar and I call it "3-2-1" as it is easy for me to remember (Brain Haze during a hypo) as I weigh it up so I know the carbs I ate once the hypo has passed. 3-2-1 is this > 30 grams of corn flakes, 200 grams of milk and 10 grams of sugar, comes to 43 carbs in total and works quickly for me.

If out and about I carry candy and look for a soda, though in my car I also have a bowl and spoon with corn flakes, sugar and a liter of Nestle UHT milk which is all we can get where I live anyhow. The days of real fresh milk from a local dairy have long gone in my life, or from your local Tesco's


As for the amount of hypos, I would hazard a guess at 5 or 6 a week, though I am continually trying to reduce that, and this forum has been informative and is helping with that as I type.

Thanks

 

[EllieM]

comes to 43 carbs in total and works quickly for me.

That is interesting, I'm guessing you are pretty sensitive to insulin. If I ate 43g my blood sugar would go extremely high ,I normally find 5g to 15g is enough to lift me up unless I am drastically hypo (below 3). Having said that, I am a little insulin resistant (thanks to my T2 dad?) and so a small amount of carbs usually go a long way for me.

The number of my hypos can vary from 1 or more a a day to 1 a month - though as I have a sensor /cgm I can usually stave them off at 4.4 so that I don't go lower than 3.8 or 3.9mmol/L

 

[Matt2023]

Hi Ellie,

That is my 1.8 to 3.5 mmol/L option, anything above that I still need to eat at least 30 carbs but no sugar, and it takes up to 20 minutes to work which I think is the norm.

I am on a current learning curve at the moment, so that is usual information, in that I should not need so many carbs to bring me out of a hypo, when I get my BG more stabilized maybe that will be a positive affect that I can eat a small amount and get me back on the north side of 5.5 mmol/L (100mg/dl)

Thanks

 

[becca59]

If my CGM rings at 4.2 I eat one jelly baby and wait. It is usually enough. Some days that can be a few times, others not at all. It usually takes me to 5 where I then remain. Anything less than 4, 2 Jelly babies. Always pure sugar with nothing else so it works rapidly and doesn’t give me a huge rise.