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    Swine flu vaccine - children with type 1

    Hi, Sorry to go of the thread but my son had a wart on his thumb and we tried everything then someone suggested pure t tree oil and within weeks it was gone.
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    Secondary school and type 1

    My 12 year old started secondary school in August,he carries his meter glucose tablets and digestives in his school bag at all times.In the medical room he has a box with everything he needs in it in case he forgets his meter one day or anything else there is a spare in the med room.Also when he...
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    secondary school

    Just now he has been upped to 16.5 humalog 25 in the moring,t time is carbo countin using novo rapide and nite time is 12.5 levemir.Just to say I travelled the 14 miles on Friday at his lunchtime to see him down the street and all he had for his lunch was a sausage in a roll.The diabetic team...
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    secondary school

    He goes down the street for his lunch and has a sandwich or a roll he also has to have a snack at 3.30 inwhich he usually has an apple.Then he has an hour bus journey home so I'm thinkin the snack is too much cause when he was in the primary he would come home from school at 3.30 have his snack...
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    secondary school

    My 11 year old has just started secondary and I'm really struggling with his t time results all summer we have managed well unitl now when he comes home does a test at 5 and hes in the 20's never been this before.For example this morning when he woke got up at 7 he was 4.4 then he took 14.5...
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    diabetes id

    Hi I also have an 11 year old diagnosed last year,he wears a dog tag and on his phone on the contacts I have put I'm a diabetic with contact numbers.Also I have said to his friends if anything happens when hes out to contact me or ask someone for help,as we live in a small village everyone knows...
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    Carb counting in restaurants

    this is fantastic as my 11 year old is off to glasgow for a school trip next week and I no he'l be eating out somewhere and was beginning to wonder how I would work out his insulin for t time.
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    injections hurting

    Hi my 11 year old had this problem and they changed his needles from 6mm to 4mm and hes not complained again.Sometimes after hes done his night time levemir he gets a shiver going up his body but it lasts for seconds.Hopefully you could try a change of needle size.
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    Are my worries valid? 9yr old with some levels of 8.0

    Hi,my child was 11 when we found out he was type 1 and he was very thin,drank,a lot and had a smelly breath.When we took him to the Drs his sugar levels were above 35,so we went into hospital for a few days and for the past year we have learned a lot of things and he has put on weight and looks...
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    Needles

    Just been told that he has to go back on to antibiotics for 10 days to get the rash away,then if it reoccurs he has to get swabs taken from the rash sites,armpits and nose to see if anything else shows up.If the rash then reoccurs he has to go up to Paisley hospital for a few days to go on an...
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    Needles

    thankf for all the replys yes we have thought it was the insulin but its on all the injection spots where he does his jags just now hes on humalog25,novo rapide and levemir.The nurses are just as confused to me about these rashes.
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    Needles

    I am just wondering if anyone has become allergic to the metal in the needles used for injections.My 11 year old gets bad rashes where he injects and the nurses are beginning to think he is allergic to the metal from the needles as they have tried everything else to get the rahes away.If anyone...
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    Just being nosey - where is everyone from

    I live in a wee village in Argyll called Carradale
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    Something to suck on

    Hi buy my 11 year old son sugar free wrethers originals,which he seems happy to eat as he loved them before he was diagnosed with type 1 last year,so was glad to find the suger free ones.
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    Rashes on legs and bum

    Hi Every needle he uses is new and they are 5mm.The sites where he does his injections with humalog 25 and levemir are constant rashes.Where he does his novo rapide on his stomach there is no rash.When he gets tablets and cream from the dr's it does clear it up but the minute he stops taking...
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    Rashes on legs and bum

    Hi my son who is 11 is type 1 since Feb 08 he has 3 types of insulin but recently where he does his injections on either his legs or his bum he gets really bad rashes which are red and sometimes they ooze liquid out of them.I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem as he has had...