Hi Shivles,
My daughter is a little older than yours, 5, diagnosed at 4 years old about 10 months ago. It's massively frustrating trying to manage blood sugars, and must be even harder with such a young one.
We chose to low carb about 6 weeks after diagnosis, because like you, we found it impossible to control the spikes whilst feeding carbs. We also self-fund dexcom, which in combination with a low carb diet makes control much much easier. Still hard! You obviously can't control growth, exercise, sickness, stress etc etc, which all send blood sugars crazy. But with fewer carbs you use less insulin, so it takes the fear of crashing lows away, as well as the crazy highs. Freya's last hba1c was 5.7%, so we're happy with our decision to low carb so far. Best of luck.x
My daughter is a little older than yours, 5, diagnosed at 4 years old about 10 months ago. It's massively frustrating trying to manage blood sugars, and must be even harder with such a young one.
We chose to low carb about 6 weeks after diagnosis, because like you, we found it impossible to control the spikes whilst feeding carbs. We also self-fund dexcom, which in combination with a low carb diet makes control much much easier. Still hard! You obviously can't control growth, exercise, sickness, stress etc etc, which all send blood sugars crazy. But with fewer carbs you use less insulin, so it takes the fear of crashing lows away, as well as the crazy highs. Freya's last hba1c was 5.7%, so we're happy with our decision to low carb so far. Best of luck.x