Milk as Treatment for Hypoglycemia

Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Trial

Official title: Milk as Treatment for Hypoglycemia

Status Withdrawn

Clinical Trial Summary

Test hypothesis that milk can raise blood sugars as well as orange juice or glucose tablets without raising blood sugars too much the way that orange juice or glucose tablets sometimes do.

Clinical Trial Description

Subjects will wear a continuous glucose monitor prior to test to determine normal glucose levels. The morning of the test an IV will be inserted into the subject and insulin and saline drips will be started. Blood glucose levels will be checked every 10 minutes until the subject becomes hypoglycemic. IVs will be stopped at that time and subject will be given skim milk, orange juice or glucose tablets at that time. Blood will be drawn every 15 minutes until blood sugars stabilize. Blood draws will be analyzed to determine glucose, insulin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, cortisol, growth hormone and GLP-1 levels. Procedure will be repeated two more times using other glucose methods (skim milk, orange juice or glucose tablets). ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hypoglycemia
• Type 1 Diabetes

• NCT number: NCT00643110
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Creighton University
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2008
• Completion date: January 2009