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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 442948" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>When I read threads like this, it makes me get a bit upset and annoyed that so many young kids new to diabetes are being started off on the bolus/basal regime without any real thought shown by consultants or dsn's as to how children will cope with repeated injections every day. Their way of looking at things is more or less..... they have no option but do the injections, otherwise face complications as they get older and that bolus/basal handles pizza and other tasty carp ok but does it??? If bolus/basal regime was so easy to comply with and get good control, then why is it that insulin pumps have flourished and why is it that books on the regime are available? </p><p></p><p>Your daughter is not old enough yet to realise the danger of having high bg levels but usually the human body tells us where we are going wrong as when blood glucose levels rise too high, we all start to feel thirsty and constantly on the loo, feel tired, go down with infections and then we all start to realise that we have to tow the line regardless and we do get used to doing the injections and device our own way of doing them discretely etc.</p><p></p><p>Do have a good chat to your daughter about the injections as diabetes is not going to pack its bags and walk out the front door (Yet). I think that twice daily injections being done by pen with a 4mm needle will be ok for her to accept as long as a compromise is made over the quantities of carb eaten which is not a bad thing really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 442948, member: 8799"] When I read threads like this, it makes me get a bit upset and annoyed that so many young kids new to diabetes are being started off on the bolus/basal regime without any real thought shown by consultants or dsn's as to how children will cope with repeated injections every day. Their way of looking at things is more or less..... they have no option but do the injections, otherwise face complications as they get older and that bolus/basal handles pizza and other tasty carp ok but does it??? If bolus/basal regime was so easy to comply with and get good control, then why is it that insulin pumps have flourished and why is it that books on the regime are available? Your daughter is not old enough yet to realise the danger of having high bg levels but usually the human body tells us where we are going wrong as when blood glucose levels rise too high, we all start to feel thirsty and constantly on the loo, feel tired, go down with infections and then we all start to realise that we have to tow the line regardless and we do get used to doing the injections and device our own way of doing them discretely etc. Do have a good chat to your daughter about the injections as diabetes is not going to pack its bags and walk out the front door (Yet). I think that twice daily injections being done by pen with a 4mm needle will be ok for her to accept as long as a compromise is made over the quantities of carb eaten which is not a bad thing really. [/QUOTE]
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