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MrsDMiles

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Hi I'm a member of numerous parents groups on Facebook all a really good help and made some friends.
Oscar my little boy was diagnosed in feb he is 3 next week.
Doing really well and making me so proud!!
Anyhow I'm told not to test during the night though I do at 3am, most parents I've spoken to check even more. One lady every two hours without fail.
Do you experienced type 1's think this is necessary?
When they grow up they won't want us night checking then will they?
Danielle x


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No its not necessary for you or him.

I avoid night testing like the plauge because its disturbing both of your sleep! if your not worried and you test before sleep and on waking why not give his fingers a break?
 
Very individual I believe some parents do test at 3am regularly, others now and again just to make sure the basal is correct. This should be routine for all type 1s in my opinion to routinely check basal levels overnight. could be once a month or once every six months whatever your happy with. Problems arise with hormone levels changing rapidly in children as they grow causing unexplained highs , lows during the night.

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Hi. This is a very personal topic to me at the moment. Like you I know a lot if mums who night test and I hadn't been doing so. At diagnosis they asked us to test for 2-3 nights to see if the basal is correct. It was traumatic to say the least and I never wanted to experience it again. 6 months later we changed the basal by 1 unit and I was asked to do this again. This time around it was a breeze as I guess her tolerance levels have increased so she doesn't even flinch. However I wasn't prepared for the results. There she was going to bed on BG 6, waking up on 6 and I had no idea that she was climbing high and back down again in the night :(( So I have continued testing, recording and giving correction doses in the night. Maybe its an individual thing, but it's something I definitely want to discuss at our next appointment. Growth hormones are at their highest in the night and this in turn will cause glucose to rise, doesn't help with growing kids that that are diabetic. So I'm not sure what to make of it as I can do what I can to control BG in the day but the 10h plus of sleeping is another story. Our Trust will lend CGM so I'm hoping to trial this to see what patterns are occurring.


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Yes, I believe so. Danielle, I've asked this many times of our consultant who assured me its very rare not to and told me off for worrying about hypos. Our DSN is also T1 and says she wakes. Plus research shows that you can have unknown hypos in the night but the body recovers, so one thing I'm wondering is whether my daughter actually goes low and what I'm seeing is the rebound affect. x


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