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Hi, Just wondering if anyone has a similar experience to this...my 5 yo daughter had a tummy bug last Tues & had a day of sickness and diahorrea. We managed ok with sips of sweet drinks and plain biscuits etc and it seemed to pass without any major problems. she went back to school a couple of...

Hi I've been meaning to reply to this for a while now, so sorry for the delay. I have a 3 year old girl who is ALWAYS saying she's hungry, and largely I think that this is just boredom as she tends to eat well at mealtimes. If you think this might be the case with your daughter as well, one...

good points, well made. We are lucky that we live in an age where it is possible for our kids to live a good life and who knows, maybe even a cure will appear at some point in the not so distant future. We need to be positive for them, I guess! You're right about other people's opinions - we...

we have all had the flu jab this year (and last) Sylvie is 3 and had the flu before diabetes and it was truly awful so I am happy to get her vaccinated now, especially as we now have the added complication of having to manage her blood sugars. Sylvie had hers 2 weeks ago and has shown no...

Hi, Just thought I'd update in case anyone is still watching this thread... we have increased Syvlie's glargine to 4 units a night, the consultant thinks she could probably go to 5. This has reduced the highs in the morning, from mid 20's to mid teens. Before doing this though I ran her...

I can totally empathise... the guilt is over-whelming sometimes, even though in our rational minds we know this is in no way our fault. My daughter also 'got' diabetes a year ago and her father is still trying to pinpoint what could have caused it, what we must have done different to everyone...

better day today - we reduced the lunchtime dose down to 2 units and nursery gave her a slice of bread with lunch to beef up the carb intake...she was 12 at lunchtime and 10 by afternoon tea, she went to bed at 10 so I feel it has been a successful day! I was awake half the night last night...

thanks, that's really useful. Syvie had her lowest ever bsl today - 1.4 - and worryingly wasn't displaying any symptoms. it followed exactly the same pattern, she went high after breakfast and was 17 before lunch (12pm) and then by 1.30 had dropped to 1.4. She came back up OK but then went...

I quite often test mid-morning and she is normally very high at this point, like in the 20's. she then comes down a bit for lunch and then crashes early afternoon (after lunch). a typical pattern would be: before breakfast: 12 mid morning: 20 lunch: 10 mid afternoon: hypo this pattern...

thanks, same thing happened today, she was 15.8 (7am) this morning so I carb-counted and gave her an additional unit of novorapid to help bring it down. however at lunch she was 17 (11.45), having just had cucumber for her mid morning snack. she then had lunch and had another largish dose of...

thanks all - I will maybe try some non carb breakfasts to see if the glargine needs to be adjusted. I think I must be confused about that.... doesn't the glargine only last for 12 hours? in which case wouldn't it be out of her system by the morning (I give it at 7pm)? the only thing is, she...

Hi all, just wanted to get your collective thoughts/advice on this - my 3 yr old tends to go very high after breakfast, regularly going into the mid 20''s. we are carb-counting now so I am obviously dosing accordingly, using a lower ratio to compensate. However she then tends to drop quite...

yes - don't worry, we have disposed of faulty pens as and when we have come across them... unfortunately you don't know if one hasn't worked until you test again! Also, as her doses are so small (3 units) any inaccuracy is bound to have more of an effect... anyway, onwards and upwards...

thanks everyone for your thoughts - really useful! weirdly we have found that heat has sent her BG readings up before but I think it has got to be the most logical explanation, or that she had a very full day the day before and was maybe just really tired. I know for sure she didn't get her...

Hi Don't know if anyone has had a similar experience of this but yesterday my 3 yr old woke up with a BG of 10.1, dropped to around 3 at lunchtime and didn't come back up all day despite reduced Novorapid and plenty of apple juice & biscuits. She was still at around 3 at bedtime (7.30) and...