[acb-diabetics] having surgery, colonoscopy, or other illness/procedure requiring little or no food intake

[Patricia LaFrance-Wolf]

They keep you NPO, but give you a basal dose of insulin and then do BG's
every 4 hours and give you a fast acting insulin according to  a scale ie.
If the BG is over 150-1 unit insulin, over 200-250 -2 units etc.  I have had
surgery number of times and this works for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: acb-diabetics-bounces at acb.org [mailto:acb-diabetics-bounces at acb.org]
On Behalf Of Barbara Mattson
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:07 PM
To: Discussion list for diabetics and/or ACB issues
Subject: [acb-diabetics] having surgery, colonoscopy,or other
illness/procedure requiring little or no food intake

Recently I came close to having to have surgery and started wondering how an

insulin dependent diabetic would manage since having surgery usually 
requires no food intake on the day of the surgery. Can anyone enlighten me 
as to what I would have had to do or what the hospital might have done if 
I'd had to have surgery?

Barb Mattson 

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