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    Best Pump for Watersport / Sea Rowing

    My 11 year old daughter is on the omnipod and swims for two hours twice a week, the pod is waterproof and so there is no disruption in her insulin delivery. She gets out of the water after 1 hour to check its ok but this is for 5 mins then she is straight back in again. The no tubing has also...
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    Insulin pumps

    My daughter has been on the omnipod for 5 weeks, can't comment on other pumps but this has been a revelation. We researched all of the pumps and the omnipod seemed to be the best option for her - no tubing, automatic needle insertion, it's very small and you can swim in it. (She is only 11 and...
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    Switching from Insulin injections to a pump?

    Contact 'input', my daughter had good control but still wanted to move to a pump and input not only gave me excellent advice on how to approach the hospital and PCT for funding but also supplied a list of approved NHS pumps and offered advice on how to get the pump we wanted as oppose to the...
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    11 year old just got Omni pod patch pump help

    Can anyone using this pump or any other pump help me please? My 11 year old daughter just got an omnipod insulin pump (6 days ago) and having had excellent control over her Blood glucose numbers, she is now having really high readings - 27.4 the highest but averaging at 15. Her keytones are 0.1...