It must be really hard for a little one to spot hypo symptoms. But if newly diagnosed both you and she are also going to struggle with what to look out for as hypo symptoms - there are a lot of things that might be hypo symptoms and your daughter might get a combination of some of them to alert that she is dropping low, the symptoms she gets might change depending on how low the levels are or how fast she is dropping.
I have no experience of diabetic alert dogs but I understand there is a long waiting list, they are very much the exception and as
@Kearnsy27 says they are the last resort. In terms of practicalities, is your daughter in school, how would an alert dog work in school? I think there is a long training period for the alert dog and it's a lot of work to train them- you would still need to test when you had the alert dog.
So while a diabetic alert dog does sound like a lovely idea, might it be a bit of a romanticised one? Especially the practicalities of getting used to life with type one combined with the highly specialised training of a dog...
Other solutions to spotting your daughters hypos to consider might include:
- frequent testing to see if you can work out your daughters hypo symptoms
- getting your daughter used to the idea that if she feels funny (hopefully you will be able to narrow down the funny feeling) she has to eat and tell someone
- freestyle libre - it's approved for 4 and up
- CGM.
Can you have a chat to your DSN about whether any of the other ideas to try are available - I think there are currently a lot of free trials for the libre going on.
Hope you and your daughter are recovering well from Friday's hypo.