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werll, that makes sense to me and is pretty much what i'm doing. it's just that the hospital told us to change everything each time, and that is every 2 days for us. i think changeing cannula every 2 days and cartridge every 6 sounds ideal. jonesy

ok, so 10% of 2.5 mil is 250,000 population about 62 mil so 62,000,000 divided by 250,000 is 248. so yeah.....around 1 in every 250 people. thanks, jonesy

at the hospital, when first getting pump, we were taught to change cannula every 3 days, however that doesn't work on my son, so we change every 2 days. he runs high if left in for 3rd day. my question is this..... when you change cannula, do you always change cartridge and tubing too? we were...

way more common than i thought!!!

wow!!!

what is the ratio of type 1 sufferers to healthy people? am i right in thinking around 1 in about 100,000? jonesy

my boy just peels it off like an old plaster. we use the wipes to clean up sticky residue, but it stings if used on the area that the old canulla just come off, so leave it till next day. jonesy

seeing pediatrician next week, so going to wait till then.

my 10 year old son has been type 1 for a year and a half now and over that time he has started having noebleeds. these are fairly infrequent and never very heavy at all, but today at school he had a very heavy one that lasted about 20-30 minutes. he had not bashed his nose at all, it just...

also, the sensors are more like £40-45.

jopar..... the dexcom sensors last 7 days.

sorry, should have said....levemir.

i like the look of this pump for my ten year old son. apparently it's the lightest pump, which i think is important on a kid. also, we really want a remote, so that he doesn't have to keep on putting the pump on show, and the remote on this one looks so much better than the 'brick' that comes...

this may seem like a silly question but....... if you are splitting, is it best to have both doses equal? my son is currently on 7 at night and 3 in the morning. i just assumed it was best to take equal doses and was going to gradually work to 5 and 5. makes sense to me....but am i missing...

i make my son change his lancet every test, but i've been reading on another forum and it seems some people use the same lancet till it's blunt or change it 'every july'! some people on there were saying they can make a multiclix barrel last weeks. am i being over cautious??? what's the norm...

leggot exactly what i'm doing, and seem to be having some kind of success too! looks like his ratios are gonna be around 1:15 ish at the mo, got bloods down to, generally, between 8 and 14 at the mo, so moving in the right direction. thanks again all! jonesy

thanks all.... have changed both insulins and tested on various test kits. this has been going on for four weeks and no sign of illness at all. surely that would have shown by now! very active summer hols, as we took along his best mate. i'm really leaning towards end of honeymoon. oh well...

also, i meant to say, his usual levemir dose is just 5 clicks at night, which i have upped to 6.5 and am upping to 7.5 tonight.

Billy is type 1 and has been for 1 year exactly. he is 10 years old (just). we have coped well, carb counting from the second month. his first 2 HbA1c's were 7 and 8. these were achieved on ratios of 1:30, 1:45 and 1:40 for breakfast, lunch and dinner. however, the last few weeks everything...

i agree that the companies that produce insulin, insulin pens, lancets etc, don't want a cure, and i'm 100% sure that they are not the people trying to find one. however, it's the government that has to pay out the millions and millions of pounds every year for this stuff, plus hospital...