How do you dose for ice cream (on mdi)???

[mph]

It's that season again. :)
Could you share your "do's and don'ts" for ice cream, please?
TIA!!!

[TracieandJim]

We buy the single cups, party size, which can be up to 15g carbs each pending the flavor. Then we include those carbs with his meal carb count and give him his usual dose. If hes still hungry we let him have free carb foods.

[Tresstonsmom]

We also include in meals.....and we try to use the cups of ice cream, or if none left:rolleyes: we just use regular kind in a box/gallon and measure it out for Tresston. Hope that helps a little.


I know our biggest problem with ice cream is the homemade kind and figuring it out.....

[mph]

Thank you! The little cups are a good idea. Do they come in low fat?

He stays level and then bam, he surges about 3 hrs later after the ice cream. Nothing steady about it! Even with a meal. It slows down the whole meal and he will go low even if I only dose for the meal.

We went to a birthday party today. Thick frosting, big surge! :rolleyes:

Just seems to be a guessing game that I'd like to "solve." :)

[Heather(CA)]

One rounded ice cream scoopers worth is 15 grams...Try giving the insulin after he eats it. Seth is always good after eating ice cream. Since he's a growing boy of 12, we don't pre bolus..Neither Ice cream, nor pizza has ever been a problem for us. :D

[momandwifeoftype1s]

We just look up the carbs in the Calorie King and cover the carbs with insulin. He is allowed one regular sized scoop - same as all of us in our family.

[twodoor2]

It depends on the ice cream. If it's low fat, or not very dense, you can probably get away with some of the carb counting methods and ideas above. If it's Hagan Daz ice cream, be prepared for the fat spike of all fat spikes:eek:

[mikesmom58]

We don't usually go out for ice cream because you just don't know how many carbs are in the different kinds of ice cream, it can be really confusing. But last week it was Mike's birthday and we were away on vacation soooo...off to Dairy Queen we went:) He ordered a Reese's Blizzard. After he started eating it I noticed a nutrition chart on the wall and looked it up, 115 carbs!:eek:! I had no idea it would be that much. He had to take 15 units for that one treat. No fair!:mad:

[momandwifeoftype1s]

I was really surprised at the carb count in a McDonald's milkshake. 75 carbs for a small (12 oz.)!

[alissasmom]

i also could not believe the carbs in the dairy queen blizards. i usually try to talk alissa in to getting a small cup of ice cream from there and it usually works but she loves loves loves MnM blizards i need to figure a carb factor for it so i can just give her a few scoops of a blizard she's only 2 and cannot eat a whole one anyway..i always have a hard time figuring ice cream from anywhere..

[lil'Man'sMom]

We went for ice cream last night at our local "Friendly's" and lil'Man insisted on a Reese Friend-Z...All I can say is :eek:.
We just guessed on the carbs and we were waaayyyy off. I did find a Oreo Friend-Z in Calorie King when we returned home, it is listed at 120 :eek: carbs for 12oz. He climbed to 384 by 2:00am, corrected but still out of range at 6:00am, 211, corrected and in high range (157) at 9:00am.

We will not have a Friend-Z, again, anytime in the near future! He loves ice cream but will stick to the NOSA, lowfat variety's.

[mph]

We went for ice cream last night at our local "Friendly's" and Manning insisted on a Reese Friend-Z...All I can say is :eek:.
We just guessed on the carbs and we were waaayyyy off. I did find a Oreo Friend-Z in Calorie King when we returned home, it is listed at 120 :eek: carbs for 12oz. He climbed to 384 by 2:00am, corrected but still out of range at 6:00am, 211, corrected and in high range (157) at 9:00am.

We will not have a Friend-Z, again, anytime in the near future! He loves ice cream but will stick to the NOSA, lowfat variety's.

THANKS for the "heads-up!" :)