When is a low....BAD?

ClaudnDaye
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:33:43 +0000
Toddler

Before you answer ALWAYS, let me give a scenerio:

You (or your child) is at a cool 105, 45 degrees down at the point your meal has been consumed…15 minutes later you see that your CGM is still showing down movement. Now you’re at…say 85. After 20 or 25 minutes your CGM says you’re even lower than that…say 60 or lower. So my question is…are you (or the child) really low…and by that I mean…are they in “dangerous territory” EVEN IF their BG is seriously reading say 60? You know that you’ve eaten X number of carbs Y number of minutes ago and you know that foods in your system being digested and that you have enough carbs to cover the amount of insulin you bolused yourself for.

So, in this situation would you consider the low bad?

There are times where our son is headed down and we treat him quickly enough (or he gets his schedule meal), but for whatever reason the carbs don’t kick in fast enough and he ends up going lower than we would ever want him to be…yet we know he’s consumed enough carbs to turn the corner on that low AND when he shows low on CGM and/or via finger prick, we know he’s already been corrected 15 or more minutes earlier so we don’t really think of that as a “true low”…hope this makes sense?

I know GI determines the speed that foods get processed also, so let’s just say for the sake of argument for this question that 99% of the time this specific food(s) that you are eating (or your child is eating) doesn’t cause you to go “low”. But that 1% of the time it acts differently.

Anyone have any input on this?

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