When a pregnant woman with diabetes experiences hypoglycemia while hospitalized, the nurse should have the client:
a. Eat six saltine crackers or drink 8 oz of milk.
b. Drink 8 oz of orange juice with 2 teaspoons of sugar added.
c. Drink 4 oz of orange juice followed by 8 oz of milk.
d. Eat a candy bar.
A
Crackers provide carbohydrates in the form of polysaccharides.
Orange juice and sugar will increase the blood sugar, but not provide a slow-burning carbo-hydrate to sustain the blood sugar.
Milk is a disaccharide and orange juice is a monosaccharide. This will provide an increase in blood sugar but will not sustain to level.
This provides only monosaccharides.
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