Understanding overnight drops

Our favorite correction method for lows is: GRAPES!

We received that tip from a very dear t1d woman that is diabetic for over 70 years! She has no complications and told us to avoid juice or sugar for corrections but to use fruit instead. So most of our corrections are from fruit.

We treat with grapes when he is trending down, slowly at 80... grapes will bring him up but with the fiber, they will not overly spike. Often we hear about 15 carbs corrections, but that’s too much for my son, and will overcorrect him. So we we try 5-6 carbs if he's mildly low. That is 5-6 grapes. We will use other fruits as well: apple, pear, banana (careful, that is super sweat). We also correct if he's going down with a single or double arrow close to 100 and still have "insulin peak time" to go. For my son, that time is 1 hour with Fiasp, and 1.5 hours with Humalog. 

Now, when he has an urgent low, or that is too rapid below 80 we will use honey or mapple syrup 5 to 15 carbs because is just faster to digest and correct. We don't keep glucose tablets due to his food allergies, but found that smarties have the same amount of carbs and are free of most food allergies. We use smarties for travel and emergencies where carrying honey or fruit is not practical. 

If you are a new parent of a T1D, This Article below is so important and so well written, I'm not going to attempt to describe it! Please do yourself a favor and read it! Every parent of a diabetic child needs to learn this!

Between the tips above and the article below, we never had an emergency where he had to go to the hospital for a low and never had to use his Glucagon, Never had seizures or blackouts, fingers crossed. His lowest number on an emergency correction was 40ish and it was a mistake with both parents correcting him for dinner and not communicating. Since then, we both downloaded the Sugarmate app on our phones and share an ID to log his insulin. 

Understanding overnight drops
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