pancake syrup and gauze - that's brilliant. Could try cake icing
   - that's pure glucose/dextrose.. wait that's grape sugar (or is
   it apple sugar)? I feel for you; had a grandmother with type 2
   diabetes - not quite the same (I never fully understood either
   entirely) but I remember putting a dribble of cake-icing on the
   corner of the lip and progressing once roused out of diabetic
   coma. I don't know what the differences are ,but I remember it
   wasn't easy. well, it wasn't hard but it took patience and
   self-calming.