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Comment by Toni Crebbin on January 5, 2008 at 1:12pm

What a fun idea. Not the low blood sugars, but collecting the glucose tablets. Did they taste the same?

Comment by Jessica on January 5, 2008 at 1:38pm

Those are neat!!! Sad we get excited over glucose tablets huh? At least you have people to understand the excitement!

Comment by Katie I. on January 5, 2008 at 1:40pm

Hey Toni!
The tablets I got in Croatia pretty much tasted the same. They were a little less "chalky" tasting, I thought, but they were smaller so you have to eat about 5 of them to get the usual 15g of carbs (that's just my estimate!). The tablets I got in Italy were lemon flavored and tasted much better, in my opinion. And they worked really quickly!! Only two of them brought my bg up in no time. I think I'm going to try to find them online and order some more.
I'll edit this blog post and post a picture of them. :)
I hope you are doing well. Happy New Year!
~ Katie

Comment by Hana Rous on January 5, 2008 at 4:15pm

I travel a lot in Europe and live on the fringe in England. I would expect to find glucose everywhere.
i was amazed to be given Capuccino flavoured glucose tabs, when I "ran out of fuel" in Germany.
i'm glad you found them. For prople planning a trip, it might be an idea to wrie down the word for Glucose in the languages of the countries you expect to visit. You could also try( C6 H 12 O6), which is the empirical chemical formula for glucose and would be understood by any pharmacist worldwide.

Comment by Toni Crebbin on January 5, 2008 at 8:33pm

cappucino flavored? Now that could get me in trouble by eating too many!

Comment by Hana Rous on January 6, 2008 at 6:14am

I found them horrid. It's quite a long adventure. my husband has a cousin in Germany and we all got together in the mountains of Bavaria for a wedding. One afternoon the cousin suggested a walk to a famous beauty spot. He led us up and down narrow steep paths for 2 hours until I ran out of fuel.(that's not supposed to be possible on Metformin and nateglinide) one of the youngsters ran ahead to where the rest of the family, with another couple of diabetics, were waiting and brought back this stuff. I learned my lesson. I now have cherry flavour and Tropical fruit flavour in my handbag and backpack at all times. I haven't seen the Capuccino in Britain either. It may be exclusive to Germany. Still i had to wait for the beauty spot on the Internet. We had got lost.

Comment by Toni Crebbin on January 6, 2008 at 10:18am

Most are way too sweet here. I prefer raspberry or watermelon myself!

Comment by Hana Rous on January 6, 2008 at 1:10pm

I don't think I've seen those. I love watermelon flavoured things.

Comment by Hana Rous on January 6, 2008 at 1:20pm

I looked on the web and found seveal flavours including sour apple, which could be nice, but they all seemed to be in "bottles". I buy in paper wrappers, which look a bit like the Croation ones you bought. I think we could have a thread here. Which are the most liked flavours?

Comment by Scott Strumello on January 6, 2008 at 3:14pm

Hmmmm, I've often thought someone (or perhaps a group of us) should assemble a listing of where these things are sold in different countries around the world, and what the word is in the local language. For example, even in the U.K. (the birthplace of the English language), chemists (pharmacists to those of us in the U.S.) didn't call them "glucose" tabs, they were dextrose tabs, sold under the brand name Lucozade tablets (there may be other brands, too). I can find the names in Sweden and Finland (I have relatives and friends with type 1 in both places), but perhaps we can assemble a list! Anyone else care to join?

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