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  1. Garymurday87

    Dexcom g6

    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...
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    Pump Insurance

    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...
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    Daily Food

    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...
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    Sick day rules

    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...
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    Hypo question

    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...
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    ketones in the morning

    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...
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    Breakfast

    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 .
  8. Garymurday87

    *** SNACKS ***

    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...
  9. Garymurday87

    Alternatives to finger pricks

    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...
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    I'm a parent who's 2 year old son just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

    hi all , On Friday myself and my wife took our 2 year old boy to the doctors due to being very wet at night and passing urine a lot in the last month , we thought he had a water infection. The docs took a sample and found high levels of glucose in his wee, we was sent straight to the hospital...