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Normal meal bolus practice using exchanges

Choose a meal you might eat and fill in the blanks.

Food:__________ exchange:____________

__________ exchange:____________

total exchanges:____________

You will take _______ units of insulin for each exchange. Your total bolus is _______ for this meal.

Normal meal bolus using carbohydrate counting

Lydia has been taught that she needs to take 1 unit of insulin for every 10 grams of carbohydrate. This is

her insulin to carbohydrate ratio. For dinner she will have:

112 grams broiled chicken 0 grams

160 ml of rice 30 grams

120 ml cooked broccoli 5 grams

28 grams dinner roll 15 grams

5 ml margarine 0 grams

__________________

total grams of carbohydrates = 50 grams

Lydia's dinner totals 50 grams of carbohydrate. Her insulin to carbohydrate ratio is 1 unit to 10 grams. She

will take a meal bolus of 5 units for her dinner. She determined this by dividing 50 (total grams of

carbohydrate) by 10 (insulin to carbohydrate ratio).

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