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Hoping to get this for my newly diagnosed daughter aged 10 as her little fingers are so sore from all the finger pricks as she is constantly worried about having hypos.

Many thanks for your reply it makes total sense to me what you’re saying but at the moment we are on fixed doses of insulin as this is all new to us . It is a steep learning curve for us all as a family and in time we will get there . We are starting the carb counting next week so more...

Thank you so much that’s great. What foods would you say are quicker carb releasing foods to give at a meal?

That’s great, thank you so much.

Thank you, yes she soon recovered, it was scary with it being her 1st one. Would the type of food that she had make a difference (only carbs in the mash) & then carbs in the brownie/biscuit)? Should she had had more fast reading carbs do you think?

hi My daughter aged 10 was diagnosed type 1 a couple of weeks ago & spent 4 nights in hospital. She has just had her 1st hypo. We don’t understand why her BG dropped so quickly. She tested at 16:45 as 8.0 we ate fish pie & veg & she had half a brownie and a small toffee crisp for pudding then...