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You could also just store a big bag of sugar, just make sure you have something more complex to follow it. @Cad, it's good for EMS to know all information. Just to use your example, if he is having chest pain, it could be from a multitude of other things besides a heart attack. Even if EMS doesn't think it is important, the ER will need the info. The best thing you can do is to keep the following info and keep it up to date (doesn't need to be in this order): Past medical history (medical problems) Previous Surgeries Medications Allergies Any physicians involved in care (PMD, oncologists, surgeons, etc)

Ok Dr Caduceus, just tell me what kind of food I need to have in my house. Are you advocating that I treat my low blood sugar with sugary stuff such as candy and the like? Wouldn't doing that cause a initial spike in blood sugar and then after the initial sugar spike there is a responding drop that can at times be even lower which is a bad thing So a peanut butter sandwich (and yes there was jelly on it - I use that wording synonymously) which was to provide long term sugar replacement and the chocolate and milk was to provide quick sugar replacement. I am one diabetic that has sugary foods in the house but I can tell you that I'm not going to dose myself on sugar to counteract my low blood sugar without having something long term to counterbalance it. Trust me, this food that I ate that night was exactly the food that my Endocrinologist recommended if I were to have this sort of problem. And my endocrinologist works at one of the top 20 Diabetes and endocrinology clinics in the country.

A few years ago I was playing basketball and the ball jammed my pinky. I looked down and it was dislocated. Before the pain hit I pulled it back into place. When my daughter was 2 she pinched her finger at a museum and split the nail horizontally. If you opened it you could see down to the bone. I did what any responsible parent would do. I wrote her a script for antibiotics and put triple antibiotic ointment on it, with a bandaid change twice a day. I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst headache of my life (if you are not sure why this is a bad thing, google subarachnoid hemorrhage). I started puking and was terrified I had a SAH. My wife called out from the bedroom asking me if I was okay. I told her I was fine and she should go back to sleep. Once the vomiting stopped, I did what any responsible ER doctor would do, I took 800mg Motrin (if I had a head bleed I was going to make sure that my chances of survival were 0) and went back to bed, terrified that my wife wouldn't be able to wake me up in the morning.