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Have just been reading a little about the insulin inhaler that has just been through clinical trials. Just wondered if anyone knew any more about it? And what everyone's thoughts on trying it out if it ever came to it... Not sure I'd be brave enough (though it's my daughter who is T1, not me)...

Picture the scene... Today my daughter (6) had a swimming party to go to with her new friends from her new school; her classmates know she's diabetic but I haven't had chance to meet many of the other parents yet so I don't know if they do, let alone understand what being diabetic entails. So...

To all of you wise owls who have much more experience of this diabetes lark than I... Is there anything that can be done to stop fingers getting scarred and marked from all the testing that needs to be done? My littlie is just over one year on since diagnosis and already her little finger...

Hello everyone, Just after a bit of advice and opinion form those much more experienced than I! My daughter (6) has had flu and has been off school all week having been quite poorly. As you can imagine, her levels have been all over the place and she has had ketones constantly, ranging from...

Hello everyone I'm sure I saw someone on here a while ago mention an app or website whereby you could enter your recipe ingredients and get the carb count worked out for you, per portion. (Of course, I could be going totally mad and dreamed this up; I do that sometimes!) Am keen to do more...

My six year old daughter was diagnosed with T1 in January of this year, just before we found out I was pregnant. Whilst I'm not one who is necessarily holding out for a cure any time soon, I am interested in the research going on around the use of stem cells and how banking blood from a sibling...

Hello all, Does anyone else use this machine and enter the meal carb value AFTER eating? My 5 year old daughter, newly diagnosed, has just been switched to this machine which I'm sure is fab but I'm struggling with it. Because she's such a picky eater, we never know actually how much of her...