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Hi All. My little boy Carter (he's 8) was diagnosed T1 25/3/16, he is just about ok now, he was very ill, in severe DKA, no bicarb even detected in his system, heart rate 180! BM's wouldn't read, PH was 6.2! He'd just had general anaesthetic due to surgery and it was completely missed as his...

Hi. I'm no expert but a couple of points I would note: A) check your Ketones, make sure these constantly high readings aren't causing underlying problems. The amount of insulin you're taking should prevent ketones but you never know. B) could you have become insulin resistant? C) maybe they...

Although (thankfully) my son hasn't had surgery since he was diagnosed. The day before he was rushed into hospital in severe DKA, he was operated on under general at a different hospital which caused him to be severely ill (ketoacidosis with no bicarb detected in his system) and his kidneys...

We use the accu-check expert and accu-check have a free app called Glucci-check for carb counting out and about, it's amazing. Definitely ask about one and when you get it, ask your rep for a pc cable and the infra red port and disc so you can upload your results to your pc to view all the data...

Thank you all so much!! On the diabetes.co.uk facebook group, few people were moaning about the accu-check meters and saying they weren't great. Personally we haven't had a problem, his meter works perfectly, it does tend to read .1-.3mmol/l higher than the USB meter we were sent but like you...

Hi everyone. Please can you help? My son has been recently diagnosed (25/3/16). We were initially using the Accu-Checj Aviva meter and now we've been moved to the Accu-Check Exoert Meter. I like it, it gives him independence, initially launched for pump users, it's been adapted to help children...

Hi. Please can anyone help. Or son is recently diagnosed (25-3-16). Due to the severity of his DKA, his kidneys are still not working properly and as yet he remains off school as he is mostly drained and exhausted after 1-2 hours of activity. Anyway, we are considering school, a few hours a day...