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Exercise and type 1 diabetes with Dr Michael Riddell

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How to Manage High Blood Sugars With Sport

After high intensity exercise, if your glucose goes up, you would need to inject some more insulin. But what we've seen is that if that exercise is later in the day and someone does an insulin correction for their high blood sugar, then they get a hypoglycemic event late on. The insulin that we inject has a half life of about two, three hours. So it's another frustration that we have about managing high blood sugars with sport.

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