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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jen&amp;Khaleb" data-source="post: 78372" data-attributes="member: 13077">Nice to find out that not everyone is going low-carb.  My 2.5 yr old is the diabetic in the family and I couldn't low-carb him even if I wanted to.  It all just seems like a balancing act to me.  If you eat more carbs you need more insulin or vice versa.  I find the biggest variations to blood sugar come from illness and exercise.  We had a hypo of 2.2 this morning after doing some playtime at the park.  I had actually given him 2 lots of morning tea thinking this would cover the extra activity but it wasn't quite enough.  He didn't have any serious symptoms that he was getting so low but the mother alarm was keeping watch.Anyway, this place doesn't really apply to kids and I hope it doesn't become the norm for kids to commence a low carb diet after diagnosis of diabetes.  The brain only runs on glucose so maybe having those carbs will make us smarter.Jen</blockquote>

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