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Do you use the same snacks to treat a low during the middle of the night as you do during the day? Share in the comments what your ‘go to’ snack is for an overnight low!
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Kind bars are my go to during the day because they are exactly 16 carbs and I know I won’t overeat. During the middle of the night I use glucose tablets to save time and keep my mouth cleaner.
I tend to use sweet tarts or jelly beans at night. Even though I many times use those during the day also, I vary my blood-sugar raising foods by sometimes eating raisins, prunes or drinking juice.
I keep a couple of Glucotabs underneath my pillow so I can get to them without disturbing my husband. During the day I will get some juice from the refrigerator.
Since I have started using Tandem tslim with Control IQ, I have not experienced any night time lows that required any treatment. I have an early dinner that allows me to go to bed stable. With that said, I do have glucose tabs on the night stand.
For the past four years or more I have been sleeping through my alarms in the middle of the night.
If I have low before bed or suspect they will occur, I make sure to use fatty foods along with my carbs, such as ice cream and walnuts.
Mostly use glucose tabs as they are easy and dissolve quickly
I use Glucose tablets for both times of the day.
I love my OJ mixed with coconut water for overnight lows. Keep a glass with a straw on my night stand. Mmmm 😊
Daytime is carb and protein. Middle of the night is juice.
Different. During overnights, I use exclusively honey (Trader Joe’s Mostly Mesquite Honey). It is fast and easy. No chewing or waiting to dissolve. Honey goes down easily, and stays down.
Daytime, I use a large variety of fruits, juices, rice cakes, granola bars, or whatever is available and will appropriately fix the situation.
I do a small juice glass of orange juice. If extremely low, I do small juice glass and 1/2 Graham cracker. The OJ works quite fast.
I don’t have any one go-to snack. I treat my lows with whatever I can get my hands on, especially in the wee hours of the morning. If I have it, my main go-to is juice. It gets my sugar up the fastest.
I keep glucose tabs by the bedside but sometimes juice, if I’m suspicious I’ll have a low at night. I prefer juice as it’s easier to drink and not so bad for my teeth. I use either of these, Annie’s fruit gels or glucose gummies during the day.
Use T:slim pump so rarely have lows but I like to be prepared! 😉
I don’t use snacks, I use dextrose, during the middle and during the day.
At night, I always have glucose gummies on hand so I don’t have to get up and go to the refrigerator for oj. I also use gummies during the day, especially when I’m hiking. I have orange juice handy at home during the day since that is pretty fast acting.
Nightime Lows require anything that is Fast, Juice is Best. Daytime needs a longer acting carb source like Proteins
My overnight low is fixed with peanut butter M&M’s. I store a bag of them in my night stand so they’re easy to get to, and it’s very easy to adjust the amount you need as these are little candies, about 1 carb per.
For night time lows I always drink an apple juice box that I keep on my nightstand. I buy the ones that have 14 grams of carbs.
I use skittles(1 g ea), smarties(1 roll 6g) or glucose gummies(3g ea) at night. I use the same during the day if it’s going down fast. If it’s a slower decline, I use a homemade mini muffin(has some protein ini it). Since being on omnipod 5, I need much less glucose to turn around a low (4 grams usually brings me up 50 points)
Orange juice, or maybe Oreo’s
Always a juice box at night. Can live (unopened) on nightstand for a long time. And I’d rather drink a bit more than needed and just know I can just go back to sleep (Omnipod will correct if it gets too high). Peanut butter M&Ms during the day – easier to slowly ramp up without spiking. Easy to store in desk at work/in my bag. Also, as someone above mentioned, each of those little guys is about 1 carb which makes it pretty easy to figure out how many to use based on the arrows and IOB. Besides, they’re also pretty tasty. (but if I’m crashing hard, I’ll reach for juice before anything else)
I like a small box of apple juice to treat a low.
For very low blood sugar I have used Transcend for several years now. I ordered from Amazon. I like the semi liquid form much better than the hard crunchy glucose tablets.
I am with you re: Transcend. Glucose tabs make me gag.
glucose tabs instead of snacks at night.
I use apple sauce pouches
My response “OTHER”, but I could have responded YES in that day or night my treatment depends on apparent cause of “the low” and depends on timing, activity, etc.
That said, my overnight treatment is prophylactic at 85 mg/dl alert and most often consists of one 2 gram glucose gummy followed by a sip of water.
During the day I tend to go for the tastier snacks – candy, cookie, maybe ice cream. I also keep a tube of glucose tablets in my pocket. At night I usually grab glucose tablets in my nightstand or I keep a small 8oz bottle of apple juice on my nightstand, which goes down easier.
Hard candy during the, glucose tablets or juice during the night.
I keep a bag of gummy bears beside the bed. It depends on where I am and how low I am during the day.
I use Airhead Bites during the day and apple juice boxes at night.
Use Costco Nature Valley snacks or apple juice if major
I find that the glucose tablets are most effective although I enjoy 4 oz of grape juice sometimes
Yes, juice only and rinse with ph regulating mouthwash.
Usually whatever I have on hand, though my go to is OJ or Skittles.
During the day I use honey stinger energy chews. At night, either 4 oz. apple cider or glucose tabs.
A slightly diluted plastic bottle with a flip top solves the simple quick and least discruptive way to stop the pump warnings .
I usually use apple juice regardless. But at might I sometime get into the chips.
Yes. ReliOn glucose tablets from Wal Mart. They are delicious! 😂
I use glucose tabs!
I keep glucose tablets on me for lows. If I do not have any I keep a bottle/jar of honey
Yes I use glucose tabs, or glucose liquid or juice.
I keep glucose tabs in my purse, in the living room, by my bed, on my desk at work and in my bookbag for class too. They work best and don’t spike my sugar too bad as other candy, etc.
I use the same, day and night. However, I risk to be in panic, then I eat whatever I find, generally in excessive amount, and this happens more often in daytime than in the night
I have mixed lemonade on my nightstand, in my in lunchbox, on my workbench, frequently on my end table. That’s my “go to,” but I always have a tube of glucose tablets in my pocket; in a door cavity of my truck(s), likewise at my nightstand and work bench. I don’t experience hypoglycemic unawareness so not so paranoid, by keeping active levels can move quickly.
I’ve screwed up and have tried candy, graham crackers (suggested 26 years ago), chocolates, milk, and orange juice. Things you have to chew…swallow…have some digestion in your gut before any effect on your levels. Some have fat, some have protein, some contain “pulp,” all that’s slows the reaction on us physically. I read one time, and evidently in my experience seems true, sometimes simple sugars absorption could begin in the mouth and throat. A whole lot faster, safer, and make me less apt to raid and eat everything in the refrigerator.
Than if the panic goes away less of a huge rise (I’ve learned how much to “sip”) to need to correct and risk another low. Medtronic has the rep to prevent lows at all costs (to the point of prolong highs) but with the bolus being more important lows still happen.
At night, glucose tabs or Smarties. I also keep Transcend gels on hand for faster/steeper drops in BG. During the day, I am more likely to add some raw sugar to coffee or tea.
I don’t use “snacks” to treat a low. My usual “go to” treatment for a low is a 15 gm CHO juice pak or Transcend gel that I keep at the bedside and in my purse. I also keep a stash of glucose gummies for mini carb treatment and a Baqsimi for severe episodes of hypoclycemia at bedside and in my in my day to day carryall purse.
I keep a small box of juice on my nightstand; a box and some water lets me remain in bed.
Daytime I use grapes or Skittles with mini Kind bars
Depending on the situation ( how much velocity down and what level BG is). I use kombucha, fruit, gel blocks or chocolate
I usually eat food during the day for lows. But at night I just grab a glass of milk. I’ll do milk during the day if it’s in between meals or I’m otherwise not hungry tho.
I used glucose tablets at night because they seem the fastest, during the day, I try to catch it before it drops too low by eating a fruit. if its dropping quick, then juice
At night, I use the quickest, easiest way to quickly correct a low BG. Welch’s fruit snack gummies are 2g/gummy, dissolve quickly, easy to chew and work VERY fast. These are my choice for quick low treatment. Being 2g each, it is easy to take exact amount of carbs to bring me back in range and not overtreat.
Fellow Welch’s fruit snack fan here! Smart to calculate the g per fruit snack. I guess I shouldn’t be just scarfing the whole overnight in my rush to get back to sleep. 😂 It’s true that a 12g package is sometimes more than needed and can push me too high.
My go to low snack overnight (and on hikes) are Welches fruit snacks. They come in convenient individual packages (12g), don’t require refrigeration
so can be left in ready reach on my end table or bag. The packets can be a bit challenging to open in a grog overnight. If I’m really low, liquid carbs are best, so I also have a small juice box/pouch at bedside and and glucose tabs (last and yuckiest resort) just in case.
Fellow Welch’s fruit snack fan here! Smart to calculate the g per fruit snack. I guess I shouldn’t be just scarfing the whole overnight in my rush to get back to sleep. 😂 It’s true that a 12g package is sometimes more than needed and can push me too high.
Glucose tabs or the liquid. I try to use that always but on occasion I will use lifesavers.
I use organic fruit snacks because one had 15 carbs so I don’t end up with a high. Easy to carry easy to eat anytime of day.
The nights I have severe mosaic use juice otherwise I use the same most of the time they are the same severe during the day happens get seldom and I generally on those end up taking in a sugary drink
Glucose tablets almost exclusively at night but candy during the day.
I keep a jar of jelly beans on my nightstand. 4 usually does it.