Search Results

Hello . My little boy is due to start with the dexcom g6 at the end of the month. The main reasons we are trying him on this is to limit the number of finger pricks we do on a daily basis, to try and gain some sort of normal sleeping pattern (for us) and to reassure myself and my wife he is...

Good afternoon all, my little boy is due to be fitted with an insulin pump next week, i have been told by our care team to ge the pump insured ,I have just spoken to my home insurance supplier and they wanted an extra £37 a month for this , can someone tell me if this sounds about right as i...

we tend to plan all his meals for the following day th enight before , that way if required we can get food out of the freezer , as its quite new its all abit of a rush at the min with getting his insulin ready and preparing food. how does your food prep work then? do you test his BS and for...

Hi everyone Jacks numbers are all over the show at the minute, we are constitantly adjusting his insulin levels. just out of curisoidy can someone post me their childs weekly meal plan, would love to see how jacks compares and maybe get some good ideas of what we can adjust to try and bring...

Hi myself and my wife are confusing each other with sick day rules can someone help 1) high bs and keystones . Give sick day ruling as per the amount of insulin he takes in a day . test every 2 hours until keetones gone, if after 2 hrs he still has keetones re do sick day rules. 2)if poorly...

when you are talking about "free style libre bs reading" is this wher eyou have a little sensor on the body and you can scan your phone or device order it to get a reading instead of finger pricking ? if so what do you think of this. in terms of tops up nova rapid takes around 4 hrs to be...

Eating out wise i guess with everything it’s just trial error & correction if required. we have had nothing but positive response from everyone who we have met in restaurants etc. I think at first we thought the whole world was watching us give jack his injections but in reality no one was ...

Hello , my 2 year old little boy was diagnosed around the end of May . We are now nearly 5 months in and to be honest with you we are still coming to terms with it all. Like anything you will have good days and you will have bad days, Some days we think why does our little boy have this...

Jack is 2 and half so doesn't tell us yet if he is unwell. There are signs we are learning with him. He goes quiet, very clammy and sweaty . Anything below 4 is a hypo for jack . His ideal number is between 4 and 8 . We only retested him as he was 3.9 and not showing any of his normal symptoms...

Evening all . We have just done my sons bs test and he was 3.9 (hypo) just for interest as he was on the border we re tested him on a different finger and he was 4.4 then again we re tested him and he was 4.7 . So decided against treating the hypo reading. Why was his readings all different...

Hello , quite recently my son has been waking up with keytones in the morning, he will have supper around 7.30pm then that will be it till around 7.30am this morning he woke up with a reading of 1.7 ketones but a blood sugar reading of 6.2. we gave him his breakfast then around an hour...

Hi all, We are starting our first full day of carb counting today , can anyone give me some advice on what I can give my little boy at breakfast. He use to have Rice Krispies and cheerious. But for some reason he has gone of these, he doesn't like any type of egg yet either .

Wow this is brilliant , thank you so much

Please could you send me the photo that would be brill

That's what we will do for meals out , we had our first meeting with our nurse today, we can get funding for something called a dextar or something like that , so will do some research

Thanks for you comments and advice , it's a lot to take it at the start isn't it !! My son is currently on 1.5 nova rapid breakfast dinner and tea then he has a shot of 3 units one beginning With L just before his supper we are day 4 into this. And at the min there are no patterns what so...

We briefly saw a dietician in hospital who gave us the basics . She is due to come to my house on Thursday to go through counting and more in depth his food intake.

hi all , my 2 year old boy was diagnosed with diabetes on Thursday, we are now into day 2 at home living with this new situation, at 10.30am and 3.30pm he always has a snack , for example, raisins , a jammy dodger a fuit stick . myself and my wife now are sturggling for ideas, ideally we dont...

so yesterday afternoon his cousin who is just slighly younger came round to play in the afternoon, they are more like brothers who dont go a day with out seeing each other .at he had a snack with his cousin a cheese string a the time of the snack his BS was 5.6 then at tea his bs was thank you...

Hi my 2yr old has just been diagnosed with type 1 . He currently is on 4 lots of insulin a day . And is currently having his bs tested around every 2-3 hrs, I would love to try and stop some of the pain for him , I have not stopped been reading about his condition as it's all very new , I have...