Today I discovered why we’ve always used glucose tabs for Daughter’s low blood sugars. We can get 50 glucose tabs for $5.49. That’s enough (theoretically) to treat 12 lows. Recently we’ve had to treat lows 3 or 4 times. So it costs about .46 to treat a low, or $1.38 if we have to treat three times. Of course, we have to follow up with a complex carb. Daughter carries packages of crackers with her to eat once her blood sugar has begun to come up. Theoretically, the complex carbs will keep her blood sugar up.
So today, I bought glucose gel and glucose liquid for lows. Enough to treat two lows takes up as much space as enough glucose tabs for 5 lows. Then there’s the cost. The liquid glucose was $2.99 to treat one low. The glucose gel was $3.99 a treatment. If they work, and one treatment will bring her up, they’ll be worth it. If they’re no more effective than glucose tabs, we will quickly be going back to glucose tabs. We also bought cake gel, which was a little less expensive and a little bit smaller, but it still was about 3 times the cost of the tabs.
On a cheerier note, I got gas for $2.92 a gallon this morning. I’m glad the price of something is going down!
1 comment:
Ouch. That seems extreme.
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