Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/files.php?file= http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/ http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Drug/artificial_pancreas_aids_type_1_diabetes_patient_0702100209.html Drug Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:08:00 +0000 One problem facing type 1 diabetics is hypoglycemia; a condition in which blood sugar drops to dangerously low levels after the use of insulin. Researchers at Drug Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:17:29 +0000 Paragraph 6 states that evening exercise AND a heavy evening meal can lead to hypoglycemia. Exercise can, but a large meal has the OPPOSITE effect. Check your facts please. I've been type 1 for 54 years and NEVER has eating too much led to low blood sugar levels. Drug Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:52 +0000 I agree with Jon Lindenberg. I've only been a Type 1 diabetic for 32 years. I thought everybody knew that to counteract hypoglycemia, you eat. Most notably, orange juice is the most popular method. Drug Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:11:12 +0000 15 years and never been hypoglycemic beacuse of eating. however, the author probably referred to the fact that after eating a large meal, one tends to dose up Insuline and this might tend to increase the chances of low sugar levels overnight. Certainly requires a bit more info to complete the article so that it reads correctly Drug Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:21:59 +0000 A good article, artificial pancreas sounds like a great idea for some who are missing it. Drug Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:24:11 +0000 Jon and John are, of course both correct, but I expect that theirs are editorial corrections. The real question, in my mind, and I am a Type I for over 47 years and have only the stigamata of retinal disease fully corrected, believe that the issues havemore to do with the price one would pay for the reported results, i.e. cost, liability to infections, specificity of results over time, mechanics of maintnance, etc. Once you have this disease and survive for an unexpected time the alternatives for management may be not worth the effort and potential complications. Further, compulsive continual management may be the unpleasant but more effective management. It also seems to me that DM I is not a single disease and that the variants may be identifiable and require several different plans for mangement. foodconsumer.org