Re: [IPp] Insulin Duration
To echo what someone else recently replied about this, we were told that the
BG should not go up more than 100 points at the 2 hour mark. This is
helpful, I find, if we start out out of range. At least I can still
determine if the meal boluses are appropriate. For what it's worth, our
duration is set for 3.5 hours and is still probably a bit too long (we
recently decreased it from 4 hours, because the IOB readings always seemed
too generous).
Octavia, mom to Ailsa, 3 years old and pumping Animas for 2 years
On 10/13/06, Erickson, Morgan [FIN] <email @ redacted> wrote:
>
> We always test 2 hours after a meal. We always hope we have a good BG at
> that
> time. Sometimes it is high.
>
> We were told at a training class last night that the duration for the fast
> acting insulins should be 3-4 hours for young ones.
>
> If the duration if greater than 2 hours, why test 2 hours after getting
> insulin? Won't that be misleading, or even inaccurate?
>
> Morgan
> Father to Allie.
> 5 Years Old. Dx'd 12/9/2002, pumping Animas since 2/2/2004
> IR1000 2/2/2004 - 8/25/2004
> IR1200 8/25/2004 - 1/16/2006
> IR1200+ (1250) 1/16/2006 - Present
> .
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