RE: blood glucose article/Bill

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Bill.

We have been monitoring Shan's blood sugars and it does not look like her

blood sugars are bottoming out at night. During the day we saw them slowly

decrease from about 85 to 75 and then her 10:00pm blood sugar increased to

the 80's and seemed to stay that way during the night. Yesterday and today

her blood sugars are staying in the 80's. Her urine ketones are 80-160 at

night. Last night I dropped 50 calories from her bed time snack to see if

it would lower the blood sugars during the night. They stayed in the 80's

(I'll admit that I'm not checking all night but around 10:30pm and 7AM).

I'm wondering if we are giving her too many calories from 6pm to bed time.

About 1 hour after eating she is fairly tired. I'm wondering if her

metabolism is slowing down in response to being very tired (we give

melatonin) and preparing for bed time which is around 7:30. We have been

giving her a 150 calorie snack at bed time.

Rhonda

Re: blood glucose article/ Rhonda

My son has type 1 diabetes and I believe that it is normal for blood

sugar levels to drop during the night for most people, even those

without diabetes. I saw some tests that were done at the children's

diabetes clinic with staff going home with newer technology blood sugar

monitors. Many had very low blood sugar levels at night, which was

surprising.

Bill

[Guest guest]

Rhonda,

You might be right. I'm not sure.

Some people talk about giving a higher ratio snack at bedtime.

Bill

Rhonda Ackerman wrote:

> Thanks, Bill.

>

> We have been monitoring Shan's blood sugars and it does not look like her

> blood sugars are bottoming out at night. During the day we saw them slowly

> decrease from about 85 to 75 and then her 10:00pm blood sugar increased to

> the 80's and seemed to stay that way during the night. Yesterday and today

> her blood sugars are staying in the 80's. Her urine ketones are 80-160 at

> night. Last night I dropped 50 calories from her bed time snack to see if

> it would lower the blood sugars during the night. They stayed in the 80's

> (I'll admit that I'm not checking all night but around 10:30pm and 7AM).

> I'm wondering if we are giving her too many calories from 6pm to bed time.

> About 1 hour after eating she is fairly tired. I'm wondering if her

> metabolism is slowing down in response to being very tired (we give

> melatonin) and preparing for bed time which is around 7:30. We have been

> giving her a 150 calorie snack at bed time.

>