glucogel

hey

im continually miscalculating how much carbohydrate is actually in a tube of glucogel, can anyone confirm its CP value? how close to 2.5 is it?

If this site is what you mean http://www.hyposite.co.uk/shop/view.asp?Prodcode=GEL002E - not very - its 1 CP

Do you find this effective, is it not easier to drink sugary juice or lucozade............

i take glucogel when my hypos more severe or when i dont trust myself not to just spill lucozade everywhere. thanks

Hi,

There's only 9g (1 CP) glucose in 1 of the 'single dose' tubes of GlucoGel, therefore to treat your hypo with the recommended 1.5 - 2 CPs rapid acting carbohydrate you would need to take 2 tubes!

Carolin

I have just graduated from my Dafne course, I find 3 jelly babies (1.5 CP) is better and much better tasting than Glucgel, also you can't spill jelly babies.

I am a jelly baby man myself, I think that DAFNE has turned alot of folk towards using jelly babies.................their tasty, and do the job......

I tend to have a mini can of Coke and that works perfect for me. I did try the 3 jelly babies and nothing happened after the recommended 10 mins waiting time - in fact my bg went lower - was a bit disappointed they didnt work but there you go :-)

just goes to show everybody is different

I think that the jelly babies would have worked as they have same amount of glucose as the coke, its just the circumstance of the hypo could have been different and the rate of drop changes the rules too, I have often found myself having 3 sets of jelly babies on a day following alcohol, as my BGs were dropping very rapidly...........

The best stuff is the juice, for speed anyway.......