Diabetes and V8?

[shalomsteph]

Some guy my husband works with has diabetes. He was complaining last night that his blood sugar was high, and he needed time off to go to the store to get some V8 to lower his blood sugar or he would have a diabetic coma. My husband didn't want to mess with it so he just told him to go, but I have never heard of this. How would that work, exactly?

[casebro]

Lots of sodium in V-8?

But I think he was full of bovine by-product. If veggies lowered sugars, we wouldn't need medications.

Now, if he walked to the store, the exercise might do it...

[Gravy]

My guess is that it wouldn't. V8 is basically vegetable juice and salt. Vegetable juice would raise blood sugar less (and less quickly) than fruit juice or other sugary concoctions, but I don't see how it could lower it. I'm not aware of sodium intake having a quick effect on blood sugar levels.

[shalomsteph]

Well, I told my husband that I couldn't figure out how that would work..he just said the guy sued his girlfriends employer for not calling an ambulance "soon enough" when she had a bladder infection and anxiety attack, so he just lets him do whatever...it's just cheaper.

[a_unique_person]

Maybe he actually meant to say "I'm feeling bored and I'm going to duck out for a quick beer".

[flim flam]

anyone with a diagnosis of diabetes whose blood sugar levels get high enough to go into a "diabetic coma" should be on an insulin regime, insulin is the only thing that could get his sugar levels down quickly and effectivley. V8 juice is more likely to put his sugars up as im guessing it contains fruit juice and natural sugars. methinks this guy is a bit of a malingerer/hypochondriac, judging by his history of sueing people im leaning towards the second option.
if he'd claimed to be having an episode of hypoglyceamia ( low blood sugar) id have been a bit more convinced as fruit juice isnt a bad way of getting your sugars up.

[casebro]

SS, have your husband ask him what his sugar readings are.

Any diabetic that needs 'adjustment' ought to have his own meter.

Anyways, it LOW sugar that causes most problems. And sweet things fix it. Veggies juice would fix it slower, but longer. If the third hand story we've been given is any where near true, the diabetic may be too ignorant for his own good. Any health care plan I have been on has sent me to education for my diabetes. By a "Diabetes Nurse/Educator". Since 1980. This man's ignorance could be killing him.

Hmm, I suppose uncontrolled diabetes could be cause for dismissal- think of the liabilities to the employer if the worker fell down, or hurt somebody else, in a crisis. Maybe the discussion would put a stop to any malingering?

[Lisa Simpson]

The exercise would lower his blood sugar. The V8 juice, not so much.

[shalomsteph]

He called in tonight with a "heart attack". Due to HIPPA, my husband can't get anything more than a hospital admission form, so all he has to show is that he went to ER.

I guess it had nothing to do with his high blood sugar, after all, but that one guy is off on jury duty and another is on vacation. He doesn't want to work.

[tracer]

Hmm, I suppose uncontrolled diabetes could be cause for dismissal- think of the liabilities to the employer if the worker fell down, or hurt somebody else, in a crisis.


Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, disagrees.

[ChristineR]

It would make perfect sense to drink V8 to raise your blood sugar to keep you from going into diabetic coma. Fruit juice is a more common choice, but a tomato is actually a fruit anyhow. I don't know if V8 would be any different from fruit juice or tomato juice, but if you have to go to the store to buy some, you might as well buy what you like.

[casebro]

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, disagrees.

Is that the one that says it is illegal to discriminate against disabilities "that have no effect on work activities"?