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I agree Shivles. This week has been bloody awful at night time. I finally got to sleep at 5am after correction after correction trying to get my sons bg down from 17. I feel so guilty he was high all night aswell. Hoping for a better night tonight and some sleep

Just a thought. Food with a more fat tends to raise bgs over a slower time frame because the fat in the food slows down the absorbtion so if you give a full bolus with that type of food you may have a hypo followed by a steady rise in bg hours late. Just thinking about the eggy bread fried in...

The thing is that although the basal is correct at night people have different insulin needs at different times of the day. It is very common for children to need much more background in the morning due to hormones which make people more insulin resistant at that time. I know my son is much...

Hi Shivles What time does your daughter eat breakfast because unless its around 6am it looks from that graph that the basal is too low around early morning because of the steep rise. The size of spike from 10 to 13.8 is actually good. There will always be a small spike no matter what but its...

Hi CathyP Each to their own and if a low carb diet works for you then great but I just can't help commenting on the statement that type 1 is essentially the inability to process carbs. This just isn't true. If someone couldn't process carbs why would their bg spike after eating them? Everyone...

My son is 8 now and if his hypos were infrequent and he woke up when low believe me I would be more than happy to leave him to it! Unfortunately that isn't the case for him and many others with type 1

Hi IHS Thank goodness for your mum's sixth sense. Like you my son does not wake up in the night when going low. I checked his bg once and he was 1.8mmol. Thank god I checked on him. Someone I know thought their child was stable overnight but had cgm for a week to help with daytime issues. They...

Hi Hi Sjigp Just read this post and wondered how you are getting on? I hope you can ignore the ' your a parent just get on with it replies'. We know loads of other children with type 1 and each one is different with different challenges so no one can know struggles you and your family face...

Really? I've never met a parent of a young child with type 1 that didn't test their children at night. Maybe you were lucky to be fairly stable overnight. I wish we were in that position but every child with type 1 is different so each parent has different challenges. Overnight BG stability is...

Its really tr Its a tough one. The thing is reducing carbs will make no difference to the back ground insulins peak and troughs and it could just run your daughters bgs higher if she's not getting enough which is what you want to avoid. Hopefully there is someone on the forum that has more...

That's great you have found a system that suits you but as you know all people with type 1 are different and what suits one person would not suit another. From what I can gather from Shivles is her family already follows a low carb diet so as long as she has read up and researched paediatric...

The official stats are 4-9% of Type 1 have coeliac so yes although more predisposed than those without type 1 it would be a bit extreme for people to completely avoid gluten for this reason alone.

Hi Shivles In regards to the spike of 3.5 -14 just wondering what background insulin you are on? When we have these large spikes after eating it indicates its time to increase his background insulin as no amount of bolus insulin would work if he's not on enough background. When my son was your...

Just a note, I've noticed that you are referring to your daughter as carb intolerant. Why do you think this? If it's because she goes high after eating carbs it's because she is a young child with type 1. Very young children and puberty are the hardest manage. This is one of the reasons Nice...

Me again Shivles I strongly urge you to consider a pump. I'm not sure why you are waiting untill she is older to have input. You have to do the best for her to live a full life whilst managing her diabetes as best you can. Limiting diet rather than a pump may not be doing that. My son had a...

Hi Shivles My son was diagnosed with type 1 at 9 months old and is now 8years old. When he was around your daughters age we didn't limit his carb intake but did use our control over his diet to make healthy choices. We used a mixture of non/low carb and normal carb foods. I did and still do give...

I know this thread is a bit old but I think it is important to mention that most insulin pumps are not too big for children. They fit perfectly well into pump pouches around the waist or clip on to clothes with no issues what so ever. I'm also interested to know why it would just be Penfold's...

Hi Penfold I know this thread is a bit old now but I just wondered how you were getting on and did you manage to have the monitor approved? My son was diagnosed with type 1 at 9 months old and went on to pump therapy at 10 months old on a Medtronic pump. I fought hard for that pump as it came...

Hi Chelsea, My son was diagnosed when he was 9 months old and I can completely understand how you are feeling. It turned our world upside down and the guilt I felt for not picking it up sooner was quickly followed by thinking I had done something wrong especially when someone suggested it was...

THanks for your reply. I have heard of diabebtic guide dogs. Not an option for us at the moment though Im afraid. Will keep my thinking cap on for a solution or just accept our son is in our room to stay for a little while.x