Forty Days of Diabetes - Day 5
Yes, she can eat that. She can eat everything you and I can eat except she has to match up her carbohydrate intake with her insulin boluses. Not as easy as it sounds. Carbohydrates are found in sugar, starches and fiber so they're in almost everything we eat. And they're not all created equal. Absorption rates are influenced by the glycemic index of the foods and fat, fiber, and protein content. It's a magical juggling act to get the insulin onset to match up with the food absorption rate. With a functioning pancreas our blood sugars can be as low as 70 before meals and as high as 180 two hours after meals. Caitlin's blood sugars rise and fall like a roller coaster throughout the day. She has wild swings from very low (scary-hurry-up-and-get-the-skittles-low) to so high at times that her blood sugar meter simply reads HI.
So, yes, she can eat that. Not as easily as you or I but she can eat that.
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