Diabetic lows/friend passes out

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

She lives alone? We have a friend who is a certified home health aide. For many years, she had jobs in a large apartment building near here. She would go in every morning at 6 AM and check on several diabetic people who lived in different apartments. She would wake them, make sure they were all right, give them their medications, start them off on their breakfasts, and go on to the next person.

She finally moved to Florida, and when she did, three people had to move to nursing homes, because they and their families realized it wasn't safe for them to live alone if they didn't have someone reliable to check on them.

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

There are glucose tablets (look like gel candies) you can buy at the drugstore. When the person starts feeling lightheaded they can chew 3 of those. Most responsible diabetics carry these OR SHOULD!!! A glass of juice is not fast acting enough - the glucose tablets go right to the system. I just spent two weeks going to classes re diabetes as DH has just been diagnosed with type II. Our instructor is an RN and certified diabetes instructor, etc. etc. and has had Type I for 37 years. She pulled the container (about the size of lip gloss but fuller) out of her pocket to demonstrate. I went to the store and immediately purchased some for DH even though he is far from getting his blood down that low. My friend who is Type I since childhood pushed me on them too as she had a friend who passed out while driving (luckily didn't kill anyone) which he wouldn't have done with the tablets.