what would happen if a person was on a insulin pump and was still eating sugar?

Answer 1

Thats a BAD thing. Besides blowing out your kidneys and going on dyalasis, there could be death stalking close behind.

Answer 2

I think a lot of the people who posted above me have no idea how a pump works.

A pump runs a constant rate in the background that supplies what your body needs all the time. This is called the basal rate.

When you eat, you program a bolus. A bolus dose is a larger dose of insulin designed to cover the food you eat. You program this based on your current blood sugar and how many carbs you are eatting. The pump calculates how much insulin you need to handle what you are eating.

On a pump you adjust your insulin needs to what you are eating- not the other way around. So a person on a pump can eat whatever they want whenever they want.

Sugar is not off limits. If a person on a pump ate sugar, they would just bolus and go on with life like any other person did.

Answer 3

I am on a pump and you take a bolus of insulin when you eat any carb. It is the extra insulin you need to counter the food you have eatten. It is better than shots as you can get an amount in ranges of 0.5 and can work with the insulin you will take in the next 3 hours plus any insulin you have taken recently. It also takes into consideration your blood sugar and tells you what you should take - it is so easy - like having a pancreas that works. Not the same but darn close.

Answer 4

Diabetics limit their intake of all carbohydrates, including sugar. Other carbohydrates are foods like bread, rice, potatoes, beans, and corn. Carbohydrates do not cause diabetes, though. Carbohydrates become glucose in the blood and insulin is required to take that glucose into cells where it can be used for energy. Because diabetics have a problem with insulin - they don't make enough, they're resistant to the insulin they make or both - all that excess glucose takes a while to be cleared from the blood. This can damage organs, blood vessels, and nerves. So as you can see, it's not that carbohydrates bring about diabetes, but rather limiting them is part of controlling blood sugar. If blood sugar goes up high from carbohydrates, then you already have diabetes. Meat has zero carbohydrates, and while protein can be converted to glucose when you eat more than your body needs to maintain muscles and organs, it's not much. It's also slow to metabolize. So no, meat definitely won't cause diabetes and it's actually a great food for diabetics to eat. I make some meat product the main staple of basically every meal I have - steak, burgers, chicken, fish, shrimp, bacon, what have you. I just don't bread it or add a sugary or starchy sauce, like gravy made with wheat flour (carb) or corn starch (carb). What causes diabetes? It's complicated. It's called a fat or lifestyle disease, but most overweight/obese people don't get diabetes and everyone in America eats a diet high in sugar/carbohydrates, so we'd expect it to be a LOT more prevalent than it is considering that. Scientists have identified many genes that may be at fault. There's also some new research that cell dysfunction (in the mitochrondria) might have something to do with it.

Answer 5

An insulin pump user uses a carb. to insulin ratio to cover the foods he or she eats, being a pump user myself I have no problem with anything I eat as long as I can figure out the amount of carbs. I won't go into too many details but the test to see how well the diabetes is controlled over the past 3 months (A1C) is near the average of someone without diabetes.

Answer 6

It is a dangerous game. A pump is good because it keeps a Diabetic's blood sugars more or less constantly at "normal" levels.

Adding sugars will tend to make the pump adjust, with sometimes too much insulin. (This can be fatal).

Anyone on a pump should treat sugar with great caution and


calculation.


The diabetic should understand the direct relationship between sugar and insulin, profoundly uderstand, or should stay away from sugar entirely untill they do.

Answer 7

They need to talk to their Doctor. But it is not good. The pump is there to help regulate insulin, how can it do its job when the person is eating sugar ( which the body uses to make insulin).. Hope this helps..

Answer 8

Insulin helps the body to properly metabolize sugar. The pancreas acts as an "insulin pump" when we eat. A person on a mechanical insulin pump should have it adjusted to his/her expected diet. I have seen patients that would turn it up to eat a carb rich meal. It is always best to follow your doctors recommendations, because too much (or too little) insulin can kill you.

Answer 9

AS A PUMPER, WHEN I FIRST GOT MY PUMP - I ASSUMED THAT THE INSULIN PUMP WAS A CURE ALL. WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG AGAIN. THE INSULIN PUMP ONLY WORKS AS WELL AS THE PERSON CONTROLLING IT. YOU STILL HAVE TO WATCH WHAT YOU EAT AND EXERCISE AND CHECK YOUR BS SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. THE PUMP IS A TOOL IN THE FIGHT FOR DIABETICS - NOT A CURE!!!!!

Answer 10

As long as the person took an appropriate bolus for it, it would be no worse than sugar for a non-diabetic.

Answer 11

they will have problems with their sugar level being up which is not good or healthly for them and might be fatal and a trip to the hospital to get their sugar level down to safe levels. this also can cause very serious health problems, eyes stroke or other dangerous heatlh conditions