Hello all, a brief introduction about who I am and why I am here. I am mum to three children, one of which is my son who is 13 and has had Type 1 Diabetes for exactly two years(although wasnt diagnosed for anouther month yet). He has survived his first year at secondary school with only a few incidents mainly with suply teachers. He obviously hates his condition but having said that does just get on with it although is somewhat forgetful. he has a few times forgotten to do his lunch time insulin at school. The main reason for finding this site was due to looking for snack ideas. The last few weeks my son has been feelig unwell. We have been putting this done to so many different things over the past couple of weeks. Firstly it was due to his flu jab, then it was that he was figting some sort of virus. Three weeks on flu jab out of his system and as yet not a cold in site we have decided that his iratic sugar levels must be due to his snacking habits.
His levels are mainly high. In the morning they are single figures, by the end of the day they are in high teens low 20s. This is whilst we are adjusting by carb counting and adding any extra at meal times. These high levels are now making him unwell. He feels sick, has tummy aches and pains. Not all the time might i add, these do just suddenly come on. One minute is happy and larking around the next he is feeling unwell, and right now has lost his apetite. I am none the less getting very concerned. I can now only put this done to his snacking. he is a growing boy and I have always been very lucky in the fact that he loves his fruit, but thsi may now be his downfall as he is eating a fair sized apple maybe an orange then he may have a packet of crisps or a quakers chewy bar. This is not all at once so he doesnt seem to realise what he is doing, but it is all between one meal. I really dont want to ask him to do insulin for fruit as he will just stop eating fruit altogther.
Really dont know what to do. xxxxx
His levels are mainly high. In the morning they are single figures, by the end of the day they are in high teens low 20s. This is whilst we are adjusting by carb counting and adding any extra at meal times. These high levels are now making him unwell. He feels sick, has tummy aches and pains. Not all the time might i add, these do just suddenly come on. One minute is happy and larking around the next he is feeling unwell, and right now has lost his apetite. I am none the less getting very concerned. I can now only put this done to his snacking. he is a growing boy and I have always been very lucky in the fact that he loves his fruit, but thsi may now be his downfall as he is eating a fair sized apple maybe an orange then he may have a packet of crisps or a quakers chewy bar. This is not all at once so he doesnt seem to realise what he is doing, but it is all between one meal. I really dont want to ask him to do insulin for fruit as he will just stop eating fruit altogther.
Really dont know what to do. xxxxx
