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Well I’m in a family full of auto-immune goings on - two of my siblings have coeliac, I have ankylosing spondylitis, my husband has T1D and my daughter has both T1D and coeliac - so I’m very interested in anything you find out about this. My sister is more into alternative/natural remedies for...

Well I guess we’ll see, if/when she agrees to give it a go. Not that I buy into the idea of the pump as solving all her problems tho!

Hi, thanks for your reply. They have said she might consider looking at a pump but she is quite resistant. She hates having a new sensor put on and I’m not sure how a pump compares but I know it has to be changed far more frequently!

Ok so this is about my daughter, who is type 1 and coeliac (coming up for one year since diagnosis) aged 9. I tried to talk to the dietitian about her eating a lower-carb diet. This was after six months of blood sugars all over the place (I'm not new to carb-counting, I've been doing it for my...

Thanks for the reply, and for the advice to try a different box of strips / control solution, both of which we'll do.

I'm interested to know how the OP has managed since?? I was mildly disturbed to be told by the diabetes team on my (8yo) daughter's diagnosis that she should be aiming for 60g carbs at dinnertime, and when I found in order to achieve that target we were topping her up with fruit juice and...

Hi, So I'm a parent of a wonderfully resilient 8-year-old girl diagnosed six-months ago and several times we've had significant differences in blood glucose results taken within just a minute or so of each other. (Definitely nothing to do with sugary fingers!) I've been reading up about the...