need advise!!!

Hi Hayley

What the A&E say is correct, If you feel more comfortable take your daughter to A&E, they won't mind at all...

To get through the night, you could do with a good amount of lucozade, coke etc to keep bumping her sugars up if required, and keep a good eye on her levels... Insulin normally works over a 4-5 hour period peaking around the 2 hours mark...

Just to reasure you that you are not the only person nor the last person to inject too much insulin, a common mistake is inject quick acting instead of background...

She will be OK, just needs close monitoring, to enusre that she doesn't hypo, as I already said if you are concerned then pop her up to the hospital I assure they won't mind at all.

I'm glad to hear you positve..

I bet she did lol

It is frightening when it happens, but if you've got enough sweet things around you'll be alright...

Take care..

Staying up with her is a good idea.

If i overdose on insulin, which occassionally happens when im not paying attention properly... i eat something that would be the equivilant to the amount of insulin i took.

so for me 4 units would be 60g CHO. so if i took 8 by mistake, i'd eat something with 60g cho in there... that way i know i've covered the extra insulin.

I guess it may not be so easy to get a child to eat if they dont want to. But i thought i'd share none the less... I think it's better to be covered with proper carbs than to keep 'topping up' with glucose drinks or tabs to get through the over dose.