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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1439916" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>I don't have a child with diabetes and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 25, so no experience of childhood and diabetes. But this kind of making food the enemy might not be that unusual a reaction to a type 1 diagnosis in any age. </p><p></p><p>11 isn't that young. Not too young to understand a basic explaination of what type 1 is. How much do you understand about what type 1 is and have you had those conversations with your son? Have you had a chat with him about why he's so keen to avoid injections - are they hurting (needle length, fresh needles everytime and injection technique can help with that) is he doing his own injection (giving him that control might be quite empowering)?</p><p></p><p>Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where your immune system gets a bit confused or over enthusiastic and kills off the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Without insulin you have to inject insulin to stay healthy/alive. Even when we aren't eating our body will raise our blood sugar by giving out glucose stored in the liver. That's why we take basal insulin. And obviously we need to eat to keep going and we take bolus insulin to combat blood sugar rises from food. Think like a pancreas is a good book explaining how to manage type 1.</p><p></p><p>JDRF do a good pack for newly diagnosed children and it's worth finding out if they are doing any events in your area you could go to. It might help him to see others with type 1 getting on with it. </p><p></p><p>You could also have a chat to your DSN to see if there's any paediatric psych support available to help you son deal with diagnosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1439916, member: 32394"] I don't have a child with diabetes and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 25, so no experience of childhood and diabetes. But this kind of making food the enemy might not be that unusual a reaction to a type 1 diagnosis in any age. 11 isn't that young. Not too young to understand a basic explaination of what type 1 is. How much do you understand about what type 1 is and have you had those conversations with your son? Have you had a chat with him about why he's so keen to avoid injections - are they hurting (needle length, fresh needles everytime and injection technique can help with that) is he doing his own injection (giving him that control might be quite empowering)? Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where your immune system gets a bit confused or over enthusiastic and kills off the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Without insulin you have to inject insulin to stay healthy/alive. Even when we aren't eating our body will raise our blood sugar by giving out glucose stored in the liver. That's why we take basal insulin. And obviously we need to eat to keep going and we take bolus insulin to combat blood sugar rises from food. Think like a pancreas is a good book explaining how to manage type 1. JDRF do a good pack for newly diagnosed children and it's worth finding out if they are doing any events in your area you could go to. It might help him to see others with type 1 getting on with it. You could also have a chat to your DSN to see if there's any paediatric psych support available to help you son deal with diagnosis. [/QUOTE]
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