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Jen&Khaleb
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Hi Jo, My 3 year old boy has been diabetic for 2.5 yrs. Welcome to the forum. Quite a few Mums and Dads here to chat with about pesky blood sugars or just about anything else.
Jen
Jen
Thanks for welcome 
Came as a bit of a shock to be honest no history in the family and i'd never had any experience of diabetes until now!
His HbA1c has been ok last couple of visits to the hospital 6.3 and 6.5. He's on NovoRapid and Glargine and I carb count. I thought everything was going well but just recently he has been getting low a lot, i find it worrying he doesn't seem to notice even when he gets as low as 2.0. I can tell when he's at home but at school a few times in last couple of weeks when he's tested before lunch its been about 2.9 and he's not noticed and no ones picked up on signs. He used to have 1 unit to every 10grams carbs but recently its been 1 to 20 i've lowered glargine and spoken to consultant and apparantly puberty can have some effect? Has anyone got any experience that can help pls???
Came as a bit of a shock to be honest no history in the family and i'd never had any experience of diabetes until now!
His HbA1c has been ok last couple of visits to the hospital 6.3 and 6.5. He's on NovoRapid and Glargine and I carb count. I thought everything was going well but just recently he has been getting low a lot, i find it worrying he doesn't seem to notice even when he gets as low as 2.0. I can tell when he's at home but at school a few times in last couple of weeks when he's tested before lunch its been about 2.9 and he's not noticed and no ones picked up on signs. He used to have 1 unit to every 10grams carbs but recently its been 1 to 20 i've lowered glargine and spoken to consultant and apparantly puberty can have some effect? Has anyone got any experience that can help pls???
Jen&Khaleb
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Khaleb is a lot younger but I can list a few of the things that cause his hypos besides the usual food insulin ratio-
Hot weather
An illness on the way (even several days before symptoms appear)
Illness
After an illness
Not getting enough sleep
Extra concentration
& Obviously exercise
OR No reason at all
From what I have heard from other parents they have a lot more problems with high figures caused by puberty. I'm sure someone will be along to let you know more about that side of things.
I know what you mean about other people not noticing hypo symptoms. Khaleb goes to an Early Learning Unit and they did a hopeless job of detecting and treating a hypo (2.4). I have had to go down and stay with him this week. Why I spent hours making an Action Plan and spending time with them and the school nurse I'll never know. :roll: At least being down there this week I can see where they are going wrong and will be fixing the problem.
Did Josh have good hypo awareness before now or has he recently lost the awareness? The most common advice to get back hypo awareness is to run blood sugars a bit higher than normal for a while (something to speak to clinic about). Khaleb can be a little prone to hypo before lunch as there is a bit of overlap between his breakfast Novorapid and his Levemir kicking in.
Hope this helps or someone else sheds a bit more light.
Jen
Hot weather
An illness on the way (even several days before symptoms appear)
Illness
After an illness
Not getting enough sleep
Extra concentration
& Obviously exercise
OR No reason at all
From what I have heard from other parents they have a lot more problems with high figures caused by puberty. I'm sure someone will be along to let you know more about that side of things.
I know what you mean about other people not noticing hypo symptoms. Khaleb goes to an Early Learning Unit and they did a hopeless job of detecting and treating a hypo (2.4). I have had to go down and stay with him this week. Why I spent hours making an Action Plan and spending time with them and the school nurse I'll never know. :roll: At least being down there this week I can see where they are going wrong and will be fixing the problem.
Did Josh have good hypo awareness before now or has he recently lost the awareness? The most common advice to get back hypo awareness is to run blood sugars a bit higher than normal for a while (something to speak to clinic about). Khaleb can be a little prone to hypo before lunch as there is a bit of overlap between his breakfast Novorapid and his Levemir kicking in.
Hope this helps or someone else sheds a bit more light.
Jen
Hi jo,
I too find that my kids sometimes don't recognise that they are hypo when they have a reading in the 2's, and other times they may be around 4 and tell me they feel low. My husband who is also diabetic says that the symptoms of a hypo can vary and sometimes for him it can be an emotional feeling. As your sons is newly diagnosed, it may take him sometime to notice the way his body feels, but often with kids they are so engaged with what they are doing that they don't realise the signs.
At school I normally send mine in with a small fruit snack which they have around 10am ( 2 hours after breakfast). We find that having a small amount of fruit 5 - 10g of carb can help to prevent them dropping too low before lunch. They also have a small amount of carb before a PE lesson.
If you are concerned about him dropping low at school it might be worth you asking the school to do a mid morning blood check for a few weeks so you can see what's happening at this time. Hope this helps. Leggott
I too find that my kids sometimes don't recognise that they are hypo when they have a reading in the 2's, and other times they may be around 4 and tell me they feel low. My husband who is also diabetic says that the symptoms of a hypo can vary and sometimes for him it can be an emotional feeling. As your sons is newly diagnosed, it may take him sometime to notice the way his body feels, but often with kids they are so engaged with what they are doing that they don't realise the signs.
At school I normally send mine in with a small fruit snack which they have around 10am ( 2 hours after breakfast). We find that having a small amount of fruit 5 - 10g of carb can help to prevent them dropping too low before lunch. They also have a small amount of carb before a PE lesson.
If you are concerned about him dropping low at school it might be worth you asking the school to do a mid morning blood check for a few weeks so you can see what's happening at this time. Hope this helps. Leggott
