When your kid’s blood sugar drops, you don’t calmly reach for a neatly labeled glucose tab container. No. You go full gremlin mode.
🧃 Officially Accepted Low Treatments
- Juice Boxes – The gold standard. Until you run out. Or can’t find one. Or it’s 3 a.m. and your child all of a sudden doesn’t like juice anymore. (my child)
- Glucose Tabs – Taste like chalk. Work like magic. Bonus: they come in wild flavors like “blue raspberry regret.”
- Glucose Gels – Basically sugar in a tube. Good for emergencies and kids who don’t like chewing while crying.
- Glucose Liquids – Taste like cough syrup made by a candy witch. Still 10/10 effective.
- Cake Frosting Tubes – Yes, like for decorating cupcakes. No shame. It works. And it’s a vibe.
- Honey Packets – Fancy restaurant leftovers now living in the diabetes bag. We stand resourceful
🤫 Unofficial (But Absolutely Real) Panic Carbs
- Fruit Snacks – The snack that disappears when you actually need it
- Skittles – “Taste the rainbow” but also taste sweet, sweet glucose
- Smarties – Basically baby glucose tabs. Pediatric nostalgia included.
- Gummy Bears – One serving = a sugar bomb + emotional comfort
- Soda – Desperate times. Flat Sprite is a classic move.
- Starburst – The chewy drama of low treatment
- M&Ms – They melt in your hand and your soul
🏆 Honorable Mentions
- Honorable Mentions
- Donut dust on a napkin – Scraped it off like it was gold dust. It technically counts.
- Mysterious freezer slush – Possibly a Popsicle. Possibly an ancient artifact. It did the job.
- Mini jam cup from that one hotel breakfast – Not made for emergencies, but it understood the assignment.
- Crushed candy from your coat pocket – It’s been there since Halloween. You don’t remember which year. It still had carbs.
Important Scientific Reminder:
If it has sugar and is within arm’s reach, it is glucose therapy.
Don’t overthink it.
Just get the sugar in and worry about the weird looks later.
