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Hi all as simple a question as the post thread says. Does anyone have an omnipod on the NHS? We are about to start to push our health board to pay for one for my five year old daughter. Our DSN showed us one the other day and seemed to think it might be a possibility. Fingers crossed

I think I get you but I have to say but whilst she is 5 they have to be our decisions base don her day to day blood levels. if she is brought up to understand her condition and the requirements of her body then I would like to think when offered candy she might say no as it makes her unwell or...

Thanks for the support and the advice. As I say I'm not a fundamentalist and I agree, when they go to other people's houses they will have to eat different food and cover that with insulin, birthday parties the same. What interests me is the day to day norm (the average). This is what this is...

Can I also add this is a family decision and I am also following this diet as are my wife and other two children 5&3. I have so far lost 8 kilos and feel superb. Breakfast today was natural yoghurt with pistachio kernels, raspberries and strawberries. Turn the clock back three weeks and it...

Both sides of this argument are relevant and I'm not easily offended and I'm certainly not a fundementalist and would happily do what is best. Id also like to say that I am an educated person able to deliberate on choices I make and my wife is a health care professional. These choices haven't...

We don't really have a team. We have a nurse who is there to support but his geographical area of support is enormous and his workload ridiculous

The diabetes team advise eating carbs with every meal

We have her on a low carb diet as her blood sugars are all over the place on refined carbs. What we have done is remove bread, rice, pasta and potatoes from our diets. We aren't no carbing just low carbing. Less insulin hopefully equalling less hypos and hopefully lower blood sugars equaling...

We are injecting which I guess excludes the above. Would anyone consider injecting post meal due to the slow release proteins or maybe splitting the bolus? We are having much lower numbers to work with which is great but also still hypo ing I have been reading the type1grit Facebook and also...

My daughter has chilled out a lot over injection sites and now finds that rotation is the best way. Thankfully

Hi guys we have just done our first week of LCHF with my five year old daughter (in fact the whole family) and we have been bolusing for protein and carbs. Protein at 50% calculations and we have seen a huge improvement in blood sugars and the low numbers have allowed us to see specifically...

Hi all As the post name says really. What injections sites do you use for a small child. My daughter has been having injections in the outer of her thighs for the past six weeks since diagnosis but they are now becoming painful. She hasn't much belly fat or back fat which make these sites...

No I think I'm right. This isn't me this if for my daughter who has just turned five and only weighs 16 kilo's. Her ratios ar as I stated and her sensitivity is set at 1 unit to lower by 12 mmols. She is small for her age as she is one of twins who were quite premature

So I have just adjusted carb ratio from 1:18 to 1:15 for breakfast and lunch and also 1:20 to 1:17 for evening meal and then it is much lower in the night to avoid hypos. Our machine (Avila expert) has an insulin sensitivity programmed in to it at 1:12 which means every unit of insulin should...

Hi My daughter has been suffering from lots of night time hypos which I have posted about on here and the general consensus along with info from think like a pancreas is to lower the basal which we have been doing over a week or so. It has worked and levelled the night time but however has...

And we are injecting, we have been offered an Omnipod but haven't decided yet. She isn't phased at all my needles seven tho she is only 5

Lots have changed since I wrote this already. We are now more worried about how night time lows. We have had drop her basal. She still has post breakfast spikes but is running pretty level the rest of the day

Thanks for the reply. I think we are going to dry adjusting the basal this evening as we have been suffering from a plummet between 3 in the morning and breakfast time which is a bit scary! I think milk might be a good idea plus perhaps a few nuts

I'm well aware of the debate now from the reading I have done and the messages I have received. The nutritionist advice is to eat carbs with every meal as part of a balanced diet vs the gritters (Bernstein) advice of low carb low insulin regime with a more balanced blood sugar level and using...

This is a good thread. My daughter is in the same boat. We gave her some chocolate after her meal the other day and accommodate it in the carb counting and she was fine, the spike didn't seem to happen but I'm guessing that was the food slowing it down. It seems from my limited knowledge that...