# Best low treatment

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/best-low-treatment/1668>\
**Category:** New T1/LADA\
**Tags:** hypoglycemia, low-bg\
**Created:** [August 21, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/best-low-treatment/1668 "2017-08-21T20:35:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/best-low-treatment/1668/23 "2017-08-29T06:48:03Z")

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I just wrote a novel about our new favorite sweet things over here:

> [@Best candies for lows?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/best-candies-for-lows/1761):
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> Speaking of glucose tabs and [glucose necklaces](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/glucose-necklace-potential-new-product/665/), what type of “sugar” do folks consume to recover from low BG? I noticed on another thread, @Michel was using skim milk for his son at night. And @Eric seems to like chocolate. chocolate_bar And @daisymae was using the glucose tabs. We’ve recently gotten into these Trader Joe’s Fruit Jellies for nighttime lows. They’re 9g carbs a piece and they don’t have wrappers which is a plus. I bought [little plastic zipper bags](http://www.joann.com/reclosable-storage-bags-2inx3in-100-pkg/4918850.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BADL%5D%20%5BShopping%5D%20Product%20Type%20-%20Margin%20%5BDesktop%5D%20%5BHigh%5D&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_o7NBRDgARIsAKvAgt2G2iVGZyECw9X8NplBcS3LoVZJEyGhb8JrBAE1T9kaCX0gGhYf8-waAnHkEALw_wcB) which fit about 10 candies in …

Historically, we’ve been pretty bad about keeping stuff on hand, and sometimes that’s been scary. So, we are growing up, and being better at it. But I’ve certainly politely asked for a cup of juice or soda STAT while in a bar more than once.

EH hates those glucose tabs, because they taste like chalk to him. Skittles give him canker sores. For a long time he used Mentos, but got tired of it, and the mint ones were too menthol-y for him to gauge how he was recovering. Chocolate doesn’t work for him either, too much caffeine. He also used Starburst, but they melt. And small Lara Bars (but their wrappers are made of some plastic-like-substance made from corn which is stupid loud at night, and they’re hard to chew up). And a host of free hard candy scored from a restaurant/hotel/etc. is always floating around in our lives. I keep juice boxes and chocolate milk boxes, and when we did Whole30, he used applesauce, dates, and figs, and that worked.

(And, now an epilogue here.)

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