What effect does exercise have on glucose levels?
When exercising, muscles use glucose for energy. At first, the body uses glucose converted from glycogen in the muscles. Then, glucose is taken from the bloodstream. During prolonged exercise, in order prevent blood glucose levels from becoming too low, glucagon and additional hormones are released. These hormones trigger [...]

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We’ve tried lots of different foods when our son suffers from low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia).  Depending on how low he is and what activities he’s about to undertake we’ve gotten comfortable with a good variety of different choices.
The obvious goal when treating hypoglycemia is to get some food into the body that will quickly [...]

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Only a few weeks after our son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes he was back on the soccer field. That first game was a bit tough as we ended up testing him once too often and by the end of the game he was complaining about his fingers stinging.
The one thing to remember [...]

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As a parent of a child with Type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia is where all your worst fears reside.

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