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Hi It's been a while since I posted on here. Wanted to put the feelers out there to see if anyone's having or combatted the same issue as we are facing. My daughter Freya is five, about to turn six and has been diagnosed a year. We eat a low carb diet as a family and she has a hba1c of...

I have three brand new meters, a one touch verio, a contour next and an Accu check mobile (with a full cartridge). What I would like to do is trade these for any Accu check that uses Accu check test strips. The reason for trading is our prescription is for Accu check and we get the strips on...

Hi all I'm still asking lots of questions. We are looking into part funding our CGM. We have one on loan for my 5 year old daughter that we need to give back on Monday. I looked on the US dexcom site and noticed their G4 has a Bluetooth share facility. The on in the UK doesn't seem too...

Hi all I am looking to research all options including the self funding of treatment. In my head the perfect treatment for my 5 year old newly diagnosed daughter would be to have a CGM and and a tubeless pump. Has anyone done the research to look into annual costs of either if self funding...

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

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...

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...

Hi Do you guys have an aim for a bedtime blood sugar level before letting your children sleep. We are starting to feel like we are having some control for the first time. I read somewhere that 10 is a good level for sleep? Last night at 7 my daughter was 6.7 and we gave her a handful of...

my daughter who was five yesterday was diagnosed T1 three weeks ago. We are starting to see some control n her blood sugars and feel we are getting somewhere. We have enormous morning spikes but seem to be able to level the rest of the day out if she eats everything we give her. Fortunately...

hi My 4 year old daughter woke up this morning with her first waking hypo, tested at 3.3 on the meter. She was 10.6 at 3 in the morning so decreased rapidly over night. I gave her a few haribo which within 15 minutes brought her back up to 6.6 and she has just scoffed 3 weetabix with milk...

Hi all I am the parent to a newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic 4 year old daughter. We are a week and a half since diagnosis. We found out by her slipping slowly into DKA and having to spend a couple of days in HDU being rehydrated and recieving insulin. We are coping fairly well and are...