2.3 one hour after dinner - 3 years old - Why????

Could have been the exercise ? Sometimes diabetes makes no sense though unfortunately. We all get the odd dodgy reading ! At least he realised and it was sorted !


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If his blood sugar level keeps dropping tonight, he should have some glucose or sugar followed by some slow acting carbohydrate like wholemeal toast. Go to bed with a reading above 8. Test him during his sleep about 4 or 5 hours after the last fast acting insulin to make sure he is not going too low.

Also ask his diabetic team if you can inject less insulin for the type of meal he had. If the team want you to keep the injection at 5 units give more carbohydrate with the meal.

Hi. I can only comment from my own situation where I'm 60Kg weight and sensitive to insulin doses. With that meal and for someone with lower weight then me I would probably have taken less than 5 units; perhaps 4? Diabetics on insulin are often started on 1 unit per 10gm carbs for the Bolus insulin; I was. I found this too high and go for something like 1 unit for 12gm carbs. Do discuss with the team

Hi. I have a son aged 17, who has had Type 1 for 5 years.

I think you will learn over time, that different foods break down at different rates. For my son, brown rice would be very slow and therefore the insulin would be at its peak effect 1-2 hours after the dose, but the rice would barely have hit his system - resulting in a low blood sugar and a high blood sugar hours later. The trick is to learn to match up the dose to the food, with a combination or carb-counting so that you can select the appropriate number of units to give and by timing the dose according to the sort of food. This may sound daunting at this stage, but with support from your team and more experience, you will become an expert. If you haven't already got it, I strongly recommend getting a copy of Ragnar Hanas's book 'Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young People'.