Recent Content by mickj

hi, my son is signed to a proffesional club in the UK ( goal keeper for u8s); he has a rigid training regeime lasting 4.5 hrs on a saturday and 2 hrs session durring the week. He's been T1D for 18 months and uses novarapid 3 times a day and lantus at night. I am not having a major issue so far...

hi , all, forever on the search of making my Kids life easier i stumbled accross this, a non invasive glucometer... any body know anyting about it? http://www.cnoga.com/Medical/Products/Glucometer-Combo.aspx Thanks dad to Oliver (age 6 - 6 months diagnosed)

hi, still new to this game, my boy is into week 6, i see a lot of posts about Hb1AC, what is this? should i be asking my doctor to schedule a test? how often are these done? is it a hospital thing or just a doctors visit? as always, much appreciation with all your answers

thanks a.m. how do you know if he is generating his own insulin? if he is, should we be injecting at all?

guys and ladies, my 6 yr old was diagnosed 1 month ago Type 1, he has 4 injections a day ( 3 novorapid and 1 lantus). we started of at home with 4 mmol and a 6 lantus. We had some very low readings and although he didnt look out of sorts we treated hypos nearly daily with biscuits and juice as...

thanks daisy, just seems weird i have to look out for anything below 4 and i can get a 3.1, which is adifference of 1, thats 25% inaccurate ( if i can do maths). ??

thanks a lot

Guys and Ladies, i wonder if you could help? My 6 year old boy was diagnoised type 1 last month. I am using a contour reader for blood readings. My son looked fine but the machine came up with 2.1, so i checked the same blot of blood with a second stick and it went to 3.7, a third reading on the...