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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 1322037" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>First off. Welcome and you need to relax and try to calm down anxiety you have. Your son will be ok, is ok. Now he needs a nice calm parent to guide him and not to alarm him or cause him anxiety. Children cope. Its harder but we do.</p><p></p><p>Talk to your DSN about trialling a Freestyle Libre or a new Medtronic Guardian Sensor.</p><p>This doesn't have to be done immediately but either one of these two things mentioned will help parents. The new guardian sensor, the parent can lig in from a phone to see blood levels.. saves getting out of bed and stabbing fingers!! They only came out yesterday and would only be on a trial basis and afterwards (currently) unless excpetional circumstances the patients have to pay for them.</p><p></p><p>Your son does not have to eat a special diet. It is nice to be able to keep to a nit of consistency for a while but the most important thing for parents and children to learn is to carb count and adjust insulin accurately. Get a carbs n cals book initially. It is important not to disrupt your childs life by changing his food enormously because of diabetes-unless he really was eating utter rubbish..... he needs to feel that life is still fun and manageable and he can still eat and enjoy himself providing he tests n injects first. </p><p></p><p>School instruction is imperative.... </p><p></p><p>Parents will always treat diabetic children differently. We aren't though besides needing that test and injection. We need normality and to be guided to fit in and to be the same as others because we are being forced to feel different when we are so wanting to be the same as our friends.</p><p></p><p>The watching over from a parent is obviously tremendously hard but the Freestyle Libre is a help but the Medtronic Guardian Sensor could be a great step forward for parents to be more able to show less worries to the children and to enable the children to feel less 'different'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 1322037, member: 17713"] First off. Welcome and you need to relax and try to calm down anxiety you have. Your son will be ok, is ok. Now he needs a nice calm parent to guide him and not to alarm him or cause him anxiety. Children cope. Its harder but we do. Talk to your DSN about trialling a Freestyle Libre or a new Medtronic Guardian Sensor. This doesn't have to be done immediately but either one of these two things mentioned will help parents. The new guardian sensor, the parent can lig in from a phone to see blood levels.. saves getting out of bed and stabbing fingers!! They only came out yesterday and would only be on a trial basis and afterwards (currently) unless excpetional circumstances the patients have to pay for them. Your son does not have to eat a special diet. It is nice to be able to keep to a nit of consistency for a while but the most important thing for parents and children to learn is to carb count and adjust insulin accurately. Get a carbs n cals book initially. It is important not to disrupt your childs life by changing his food enormously because of diabetes-unless he really was eating utter rubbish..... he needs to feel that life is still fun and manageable and he can still eat and enjoy himself providing he tests n injects first. School instruction is imperative.... Parents will always treat diabetic children differently. We aren't though besides needing that test and injection. We need normality and to be guided to fit in and to be the same as others because we are being forced to feel different when we are so wanting to be the same as our friends. The watching over from a parent is obviously tremendously hard but the Freestyle Libre is a help but the Medtronic Guardian Sensor could be a great step forward for parents to be more able to show less worries to the children and to enable the children to feel less 'different'. [/QUOTE]
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