My mom suffers from type 2 diabetes and controls it with diet Her sugar drops to!
Question: What can she eat, that isn't too rich and makes her stomach sick, (she's 82 w/hbp) but will give her better fasting numbers in the morning. She has been dropping to the 80s and 70s. She keeps herself on a very rigid diet and rarely cheats. What kind of snack can she eat about 10pm that won't be too heavy for her digestive tract, but keep her sugar at a good level? She just stopped taking Junuvia because it made her very sick. She doesn't need any other medication for her sugar levels except for this nighttime.
Please serious answers only. I'm her caregiver and need help with this. The dr just keeps sticking samples of meds at her and they just don't work.
Answers: What can she eat, that isn't too rich and makes her stomach sick, (she's 82 w/hbp) but will give her better fasting numbers in the morning. She has been dropping to the 80s and 70s. She keeps herself on a very rigid diet and rarely cheats. What kind of snack can she eat about 10pm that won't be too heavy for her digestive tract, but keep her sugar at a good level? She just stopped taking Junuvia because it made her very sick. She doesn't need any other medication for her sugar levels except for this nighttime.
Please serious answers only. I'm her caregiver and need help with this. The dr just keeps sticking samples of meds at her and they just don't work.
Protein is what I'd suggest. Some small serving of meat and cheeses. They break down a bit slower and should give her some coverage throught the night. An old, cheap easy on is a bologna and cheese sandwich.
Sugar free yogurt is good if she can tolerate the dairy at night.
An ounce or two of almonds, depending on her teeth.
70-80 mg/dL is not a bad reading, especially for fasting. Bear in mind that type 2 diabetics have the reputation for feeling low with a normal blood sugar, because it helps them get a bite to eat. Sneaky. This is not a conscious thing, just a Pavlov type thing. "If I feel this way, I get food." The training of the brain is quite powerful.
If she starts dropping into the sixties and lower, of course a more carb rich snack of juice or PBJ will bring her back up fast, but it doesn't sound like it is that bad.
Med wise, take her list of blood sugars to her doctor and ask if her PM meds need adjusted, if she is on some. I couldn't quite tell from your question.
Take care.
My mother-in-law had type 2, and when her blood sugar would drop, they would give her peanut butter and crackers or orange juice.
Peanut butter crackers or cheese and crackers.
My bedtime snack is a half cup of ice cream!! the real stuff not the low fat or low sugar junk.
It helps keep me from having that dawn phenomenon thingy where I wake up with 150 level after having 50 or 60 at 2 am!!!
She might have some apple slices with some of that yummy flavored cream cheese dip stuff on them?? or handful of nuts.
Before bed have your mom eat some peanut butter or cheese crackers. The higher the protein the better. If your Mom gets hypoglycemic squeeze a little bit of decorator's frosting into her mouth next to her cheek. This will be absorbed very quickly into the blood stream through her mucous membranes. Take your Mom to an Endocrinologist and get another opinion.