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DD 17MO is now on split basal dose, 0.5 units morning and night. It seems to me like she needs more? She was on 2 units a day single dose a couple of weeks ago and I felt that worked well during the day but she had night hypos (dose given at 7pm). What do you think is it a basal or bolus issue?

Yes I do test regular after giving it to make sure she's come down but I just wondered how low I should allow her to drop before giving the meal :)

I test my daughter minimum 8 times a day but usually around 14 times, more if we get unexpected readings or she's more active, ill etc

Your diabetes support nurse is the best person to ask, they will know your history and doses

If you give a correction before a meal how long do you wait before eating? Is there a certain level you wait for?

http://freegan.info It's actually horrendous how much food gets wasted!

The team called on Friday and said they're getting us a different one as they was going to arrange a libre for us :) will ask about it when I call tomorrow over doses

You know stores throw out all the food that goes out of date that day if they don't sell it? Many people survive solely off the packaged food supermarkets throw out each day, most of it is perfectly edible

So it wasn't just rice, she went low after toast at breakfast and chips at dinner, lunch seemed pretty good. Looks like her bolus might need adjustment I'll call the DSN Monday

The team are arranging a trial of a CGM for her but not the libre as it's only licenced for over 4s

We're half way through the cartridge so no problems there, could well be her pancreas having a go [emoji28] honeymoon period is such fun lol She's just gone low again so could well be her bolus rates need adjusting now the basal has been changed

I'm going to try equal amount of carbs from potato instead of rice tonight to see if it's just the rice or she's just dealing better with carbs (had surprisingly good readings for toast this morning!) It was just regular old boiled long grain rice! I flavoured it with some mixed herbs and...

Never a dull moment eh?

The measurements I'm certain are correct I weigh everything twice on the digital scale :) Could well be the teatime ratio is off now as we have been tweaking the basal, I might try equal carbs of a different kind to check. It was 30g dry weight rice which was about 4 tablespoons once cooked...

I'm going to suggest you download and use the mysugr app if you can, it helped me massively with spotting patterns and getting good advice :) Sounds to me like her lantus dose isn't enough and her novorapid meal doses are too high. How are you working out how much rapid to give? Do you have a...

Hi, I currently use the mysugr app which is fantastic, if you don't know of it I suggest you have a look because that's the standard you have to match :) A useful feature would be if the app already knew carb contents, so say you could input you ate 100g of rice and 50g peas and it would know...

Sorry no advice but this is clear discrimination and I hope you get it sorted!

Last 2 nights I've give LO rice with her tea and both nights she has gone low after tea which I treat appropriately and then her sugars stay pretty much the same overnight, dropping maybe a couple of mmol at best. What on earth? I thought rice would give a big spike but it seems to not affect...

Just wanted to say thanks for this post, makes me feel better about my daughters high 1hr readings

LOs consultant isn't concerned with the big spikes after meals, he said its to do with honeymoon period mostly and should be better once she's finished that. He agrees that levemir split is a good move so starting with that tonight/tomorrow and they're getting us a trial of the freestyle libre...