Recent Content by AlistairSam

My kid's school have a protocol what to do when my kid has a hypo and I discovered today they havent been following it for maybe half a year and I feel sick that I only now found out. Rather than giving him a sweet from his box, waiting and retesting, they have just been giving him his bolus...

With my kid he started to complain and I noticed that we had a bad batch of needles. When I looked at them really closely the tip was slightly bent which seemed to blunt it slightly and it took more force to puncture the skin.

There is an engineering student in Swansea? trying to make an open source pump accurate enough to deliver drugs. Probably not portable though.

Thanks for the advice. Nightscout looks good, Id be happy to set that up. Seems like share is not available in the UK, and its unclear when the G5 is coming here. If it was soon I would probably wait, though I like the idea of having the raw data. I must admit being a trained as an engineer and...

He has the lantus for the junior star again now, for some reason they switched him across to the solo star(?) pens which are disposable. Thanks for the advice folks. Is it normal that a UK primary school would have a policy of not administering glucagen in an emergency?

I probably should push the pump side of things. If I dont get anywhere with the clinic we'll probably move to a different one, we're on the border of the trust areas and the clinic we attend seems a bit slow when it comes to technology. It seems that if my kid manages his condition well they...

Yes, on a waiting list for that, since the start of April, didnt hear anything at all so reconsidering the alternatives. That seemed like a lower cost way to test the CGM water but doesnt offer the chance for integration with a pump. I guess demand massively outstripped supply and maybe they've...

1st post, hoping its in the right place... Im looking into getting a CGM for my kid who is currently doing MDI. Its 7 months or so since diagnosis, he is a fairly sensible 8 year old, and my medium term hope is to get him intergrated pump and CGM, though where we live now getting CGM or...