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Lois run it by your unit - have you got a 24/7 call line where you are? our protocol is the standard one issued to all "patients" at our endo clinic and works but you really should double check - can you give your A&E a ring? If your ketones are off the test strip, as a parent i would be...

We have a quick protocol to follow for ketones and it seems a little confusing at first but will make sense once it drops the ketones and flushes them out. TEST if BG is LESS that 10mmol/L then have insulin at 1u/10kg body weight and a fast sugar (glucose rich) something to eat BUT if BG is...

Re: Fed up Oh Denise there are days like this! I find with Max getting a high down is often a challenge on some days and not on others. It is the baffling part of the disorder. I get Max to drink at least a half litre of ice cold water which helps. Apart from that all I can say is strength to...

I have a very excellent eating program for bashing through insulin resistance and stopping the "stodge/bread" cravings. It is not medically approved or nutritionist approved but it worked for me. 7 years later and my weight is still stable, i am on no meds and my basal insulin and thyroid are...

I got a call from my old Endo, a wonderful man who helped me with some thyroid drama I had some years ago. He runs one of the biggest and most respected adult diabetes centers in South Africa and is considered top of his field south of the Equator. He heard about Max's T1 diagnosis from my...

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Let me stress that I am not a doctor nor qualified to give any advice whatsoever but what you describe sounds like mild TIA's and may be associated with blood pressure issues, cholesterol or a blockage somewhere that is starving your brain of whatever it needs to function. it could also be an...

It is called the Accu-Check Smart Pix and you can order it from the pharmacy. We ay for everything here in SA so i am not sure what it will cost in the UK, I paid the equivalent of about 30GBP for ours. It plugs into our laptop and then reads the monitor and all data in the monitor via infrared...

Hi Gang If any other parents are battling to get fibre into their T1 kids here is a winner of a recipe. It is high carb but because of all the roughage it is a lovely slow carb too. Max has this for his snack in the morning and it carries him through daytime playtime and sport beautifully with...

Morning. :wave: We got the 'reader" for Max's Accu-Chek and wow what a difference it has made to knowing where we are, how he is doing and what I need to do more or less of and when. Tight management is made so much easier being able to see the data in 3D and i feel so much more confident with...

We all live through challenges GraceK. My sister was an epileptic, Max was born with Pyloric Stenosis, my gran an un-managed manic depressive. I had plumbing issues that caused 11 miscarriages. My post was not about the condition or the lack of knowledge of it. It was about the insensitivity...

Hey Ady, welcome to the ranks of new parents. Wow you seem to be bouncing through so fast and so well. Our kids amaze us dont they? Max is just blossoming and i mean really blossoming. Maybe i was just too preoccupied with other less important stuff in life BD (before diabetes) to have really...

Oh RRB a Seuss fan... I am going to start giving the answers i want to give and have been biting my tongue not to say... like this "Lucky he caught it so young!" A: "Yes , isn't it? We are hoping for more luck like this definitely!" :shock: "It killed all my relatives!" A: "Oh wow. I feel...

:***: We are 4 weeks into our T1 journey, Max, my 8 year old and the rest of us. The support and love showered on us from near and far has been absolutely wonderful and humbling and heart warming and so so good. We feel wrapped in a blanket of care by most everyone, even a dear old lady in the...

Well we are three weeks into flying solo and what a difference some confidence makes. Bg is nice and steady at a mean average of 7.2 (which is absolute evidence we are still "low" dodging) but we get better all the time. Happy to report that Max's life is exactly as it was, just a little more...

Hahaha we could write a hospital handbook for the new mommies and daddies but judging how we all reacted its working title might have the be "***!!!" There is plenty of room at the inn - always. I am a Brit Saffer, born in Stoke and raised in South Africa. Our kettle is always on (and the fridge...

Thanks Taffy but we are in South Africa and no NHS. Our private Medical Aid insurance is great but only covers 4 packs of strips a month and only allows you to have T1 diabetes one year at a time, but apart from all that, we're good. The point I was making is that I really don't care how often...

Also a new mom and also feel as guilty as hell about missing the signs. Max was DKA and 27 when the penny finally dropped for me. Luckily our GP is a friend of mine because Max looked fine and any other doc would have said "flu" but Stephen, despite telling me i was way off base tested max's...