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My 1 year old daughter was diagnosed with type1 diabetes last month.
As many of young type1 diabetes patients, she wasn't being able to be diagnosed at the first place and suffered very severe DKA.
After luckily bring my little angel back from PICU, I tried to plan her some healthy daily diet by myself.
I did some research, from internet articels and books, I weight every single food she has, input them into excel, calculate carefully, just to make sure she gets 900kcals of energy each day while the proteins are under 20%.
Frustratingly, in the past month I did a terrible job, her blood sugar is still very uncontrolled now. After a 2-3 days of continuous high blood sugar(above 15 mmol/l),I thought that maybe I should add some insulins. So I started to give her 4 units instead of 3-3.5 units before every meal.
One day after I adjust the amount, about 2:30 pm in the afternoon, on our way to see doctor for a hospital examination, I saw my daughter suddenly sweated profusely, like she is melting. I realised that she might was having a hypo cause I heard that from doctors several times , who told me to AVOID hypo in any cases.
So I cancelled the appointment immediately and head back home, hoping that she was merely feeling too warm in the vehicle.
It took us about 1 hour to get back home, unfortunately, her blood sugar was 2.2 mmol/l. I let her drink some sugar melted in water, after 20mins her blood sugar was 3.7mmol/l.
I hate myself so much for the decision I made to adjust the insulin amount, a far more conservative insulin plan was implied on her now.
So, how much chance is the permanent brain damage take place after a 2.2 hypo? Is brain damage a certain result of hypoglycemia?
s
As many of young type1 diabetes patients, she wasn't being able to be diagnosed at the first place and suffered very severe DKA.
After luckily bring my little angel back from PICU, I tried to plan her some healthy daily diet by myself.
I did some research, from internet articels and books, I weight every single food she has, input them into excel, calculate carefully, just to make sure she gets 900kcals of energy each day while the proteins are under 20%.
Frustratingly, in the past month I did a terrible job, her blood sugar is still very uncontrolled now. After a 2-3 days of continuous high blood sugar(above 15 mmol/l),I thought that maybe I should add some insulins. So I started to give her 4 units instead of 3-3.5 units before every meal.
One day after I adjust the amount, about 2:30 pm in the afternoon, on our way to see doctor for a hospital examination, I saw my daughter suddenly sweated profusely, like she is melting. I realised that she might was having a hypo cause I heard that from doctors several times , who told me to AVOID hypo in any cases.
So I cancelled the appointment immediately and head back home, hoping that she was merely feeling too warm in the vehicle.
It took us about 1 hour to get back home, unfortunately, her blood sugar was 2.2 mmol/l. I let her drink some sugar melted in water, after 20mins her blood sugar was 3.7mmol/l.
I hate myself so much for the decision I made to adjust the insulin amount, a far more conservative insulin plan was implied on her now.
So, how much chance is the permanent brain damage take place after a 2.2 hypo? Is brain damage a certain result of hypoglycemia?
s