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<blockquote data-quote="hanadr" data-source="post: 393272" data-attributes="member: 8110"><p>My daughter is a primary school teacher. Team leader[ :? ] for keystage 1. thus she has responsibility for the welfare of all those children. She's just had a diabetic girl join her charges. A couple of days ago, she invited the local paediatric diabetes clinic nurse in to talk to staff. The general opinion apparently was that this exercise was useless. The staff are being asked to help monitor the child,[with training from the nurse] whose control isn't very good. </p><p> My daughter has, been asking me a lot of questions. Of course her dad is a lifelong T1, so she has some understanding.</p><p> Anyway today I got a text from her. What should a blood sugar be for the child? Apparently it was 16.2 and had been above 16 since this morning. My daughter was told by the mother that she varies the insulin according to the carbs she's eating.</p><p> I advised my daughter to check the child's breath for "nail varnish" smell and if she detects it to call 999. There was no smell and the child seems OK. Still I think a whole morning of Bg over 16 isn't good. The mother is apparently not worried.</p><p> I will talk through diabetes and insulin use with my daughter when I see her tomorrow. </p><p>However if the nurse and the mother aren't worried about consistently high sugars. what can a teacher do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hanadr, post: 393272, member: 8110"] My daughter is a primary school teacher. Team leader[ :? ] for keystage 1. thus she has responsibility for the welfare of all those children. She's just had a diabetic girl join her charges. A couple of days ago, she invited the local paediatric diabetes clinic nurse in to talk to staff. The general opinion apparently was that this exercise was useless. The staff are being asked to help monitor the child,[with training from the nurse] whose control isn't very good. My daughter has, been asking me a lot of questions. Of course her dad is a lifelong T1, so she has some understanding. Anyway today I got a text from her. What should a blood sugar be for the child? Apparently it was 16.2 and had been above 16 since this morning. My daughter was told by the mother that she varies the insulin according to the carbs she's eating. I advised my daughter to check the child's breath for "nail varnish" smell and if she detects it to call 999. There was no smell and the child seems OK. Still I think a whole morning of Bg over 16 isn't good. The mother is apparently not worried. I will talk through diabetes and insulin use with my daughter when I see her tomorrow. However if the nurse and the mother aren't worried about consistently high sugars. what can a teacher do? [/QUOTE]
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