Teaching your child to eat a moderate carb diet, focusing on healthy carbs as daily regime, with an allowance/ability to include a treats along the way is far better than enforcing a regime onto him that will make him feel more stigmatised than he already does amongst his peers.. And he is more likely to rebel with disastrous consequences at some point in the future...
Katherine (her son isn’t on a extreme low carb diet)
Steven injects 12-20 times a day. This is because he sticks to 7 units or less for each injection.
This ensures meal insulin works when it is supposed to and reduces possible long term fat/skin changes.
It seems a lot but it is a great way to get pump style control without the disadvantages of the pump. Also the jags are all small in volume so are usually painless.
The thread can be found here to get full context
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Can you imagine how time consuming this amount of injections and supporting BG testing takes out of the day? And would you really want to ask this out of your son?
Your son is younger, and with this comes many more considerations, has his body reached enough maturity to recognise that the blood glucose is dropping, and start to signal with symptoms that this happening (a problem for a lot of children) if it is, can your son recognise and understand these symptoms acting upon them? Then there’s the usual ensuring nutritional requirements are meet to ensure healthy growing etc etc..
It is a fine balancing act, as yes we want the best possible control for our child, but we also must allow our child to grow within their peer group so as they travel through childhood, through teenage years then becoming well rounded adults with the necessary skills and understanding of how to take control of their diabetes in any circumstances without feeling stigmatised or standing outside looking in..