If you are able to eat or drink, take something with sugar. Always carry sugar or glucose tablets with you. You can also use juice. If you are disoriented, a friend or family member should be taught how to use Glucagon shots (it comes in a nasal spray now, which you could also use the glucagon). Glucagon is prescription. I think carbonated drinks with sugar are absorbed faster. However, apple juice in the small cans are easy to carry, or orange juice if that's your preference.

If you have *symptoms* of hypoglycemia, do the following: Eat or drink 15 to 20 grams of fast-acting carbohydrates. These are sugary foods without protein or fat that are easily converted to *sugar* in the body. Try glucose tablets or gel, *fruit juice*, regular — not *diet* — soft drinks, honey, and sugary candy.