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<blockquote data-quote="Johndotcom" data-source="post: 1378043" data-attributes="member: 161469"><p>You can of course, if you have severe hypos or frequent hypos, drain the Liver and it cannot produce any sugar release, to aid recovery, this is often overnight and why Diabetics still end up in Casualty. Frequent Hypos are very dangerous, and can cause brain damage or worse, if Frequent, really low (below 1.0) and are not quickly treated. You can also loose all Insulin awareness, which means you get no symptoms of a hypo, and if not realised and with no help, can go into a coma or unconscious. It's not only high blood sugars and ketones that can damage you and make you very ill, it's just as frequent for it to be a Hypo.</p><p></p><p>The reason that people on Pumps have to go on a refresher day course each year, is down to deaths by people not checking their bloods while using a insulin pump, and their sugar and ketones went through the roof and killed them. The coroner said that one person believed the pump would put in sufficient insulin. It will of course if patterns are programmed for Basal and Bolus rates against blood test results, but without frequent blood tests, a pump can become an enemy not a help. Just stick to the rules, frequent tests and you can carry on near enough as normal</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Johndotcom, post: 1378043, member: 161469"] You can of course, if you have severe hypos or frequent hypos, drain the Liver and it cannot produce any sugar release, to aid recovery, this is often overnight and why Diabetics still end up in Casualty. Frequent Hypos are very dangerous, and can cause brain damage or worse, if Frequent, really low (below 1.0) and are not quickly treated. You can also loose all Insulin awareness, which means you get no symptoms of a hypo, and if not realised and with no help, can go into a coma or unconscious. It's not only high blood sugars and ketones that can damage you and make you very ill, it's just as frequent for it to be a Hypo. The reason that people on Pumps have to go on a refresher day course each year, is down to deaths by people not checking their bloods while using a insulin pump, and their sugar and ketones went through the roof and killed them. The coroner said that one person believed the pump would put in sufficient insulin. It will of course if patterns are programmed for Basal and Bolus rates against blood test results, but without frequent blood tests, a pump can become an enemy not a help. Just stick to the rules, frequent tests and you can carry on near enough as normal [/QUOTE]
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