My endocrinologist suggested sugar water after I complained about having to buy fruit snacks or granola bars. Similar to the sugar packets, I have a container of sugar that I leave at work.
I like a pure dextrose hypo treatment instead of the many other sugars available. Did you know that table sugar, sucrose, is actually a combination of 50% glucose and 50% fructose? Fructose is metabolized in the liver. I don’t know the speed of its path through the liver but any delay when treating hypoglycemia is undesirable. I know that any sugar in a pinch is better than none, but if I have a choice, I’d much rather use a treatment that is 100% glucose/dextrose.
What do you mean sugar water? I just buy soda and use that. I used to chew candy but as I have gotten older I do not want the stickiness tooth decay issue, soda is bad but it does not stick the way candy does, I try to swallow some water after but not always. In the daytime I use lots of different things, it is the middle of the night issues for me. Not sure I would swap out sugar water for a coke at 2 in the morning.:). FWIW I tend to be on low insulin amounts so have time to respond.
I use gummi bears/swedish fish/twizzlers type candy, because I can leave them everywhere (work, car, bags, pockets, next to my bed) and they never go bad.
The worst thing they can do is melt together… which doesn’t bother me.
I only mentioned sugar water because they requested a cheap solution, and it works better than candy because candy always seems to disappear.
I use dex tabs (always with me in my d-bag), dinner mints (in my night stand drawer and in the car), and hard candy (throughout the house and in the car). I’ve used chocolate covered raisins, but as someone mentioned not long ago, I became worried about the raisins staying on my teeth until I got up in the morning to brush them.