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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1388180" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>All the basic things you are describing do sound like normal behaviour challenges in a 3year old. But you are experiencing a more extreme version? </p><p></p><p>Behaviour changes aren't a side effect of insulin. But they can be a symptom of blood sugar fluctuations.</p><p></p><p>Hallucinations due to a hypo isn't that unusual. And if you're a 3 year old that hallucination might take hold and continue while euglycaemic. It's not insulin causing the hallucination, it's low blood sugar, your brain needs glucose to function. Having that kind of severe hypo is very disorientating and distressing even when you are old enough to understand exactly what happened.</p><p></p><p>A 3 year old with a big change of diabetic diagnosis and the physical stress of fluctuating blood sugar may well develop some extreme behaviour in reaction.</p><p></p><p>But he might always have been a challenging little boy without diabetes, perhaps he's just pushing boundaries because that's what three year olds do, perhaps he's ready for school early and needs lots of different stimulation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1388180, member: 32394"] All the basic things you are describing do sound like normal behaviour challenges in a 3year old. But you are experiencing a more extreme version? Behaviour changes aren't a side effect of insulin. But they can be a symptom of blood sugar fluctuations. Hallucinations due to a hypo isn't that unusual. And if you're a 3 year old that hallucination might take hold and continue while euglycaemic. It's not insulin causing the hallucination, it's low blood sugar, your brain needs glucose to function. Having that kind of severe hypo is very disorientating and distressing even when you are old enough to understand exactly what happened. A 3 year old with a big change of diabetic diagnosis and the physical stress of fluctuating blood sugar may well develop some extreme behaviour in reaction. But he might always have been a challenging little boy without diabetes, perhaps he's just pushing boundaries because that's what three year olds do, perhaps he's ready for school early and needs lots of different stimulation. [/QUOTE]
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