Hi everyone I'm still new to this, so not sure if I'm in the right place on here..... but I'll give it a go! My daughters T1 diagnosed 4 months now n all a been quite good with blood sugars til just b4 Xmas, they now still seem so high all of the time, we've switched to the Aviva Expert meter and ratios are changed slightly but the highest ever this morning was 14.5!? I don't know why? She said her throats a bit sore but they were always so good and around 6/7 but now always over 9/10 throughput the days, and up to 15?? Could anyone please give me some advice? Thankuu
could you perhaps add a bit more information regarding the time frame.
Reading your post above I am thinking your daughters bloods have risen quite a bit in the last 3 and a bit weeks ??
I have a couple of thoughts on this
1 -- did your daughters eating change at all over the Christmas period ( 22nd December to January 2nd )
I know that this time of the year can be more difficult to keep sugars down because there are just that many more opportunities to eat what is on offer including nibbles , buffet type food , and of course chocolate.
2 -- you mention a sore throat -- with any cold or infection our bloods do rise significantly because of the infection.
do have a chat with your daughter's DSN and have a look at sick day rules
link here http://www.leicestershirediabetes.org.uk/438.html
Would definitely contact the DSN for some advice on this since you may need to consider looking at sick day rules. Have you got a tester for doing Ketones? If not then try to get one of these from your DSN too.
With levels sitting in the mid teens for a while you want to be keeping an eye out for ketones since that can be an indicator that your daughter is ill.
Of course all that being said it may well be that her basal insulin is not enough, though without seeing a whole bunch more data on how her bloods have been responding it is difficult to say for sure.
Just to be safe and get a sanity check start with DSN and go from there, though if you have the tester I would definitely be testing for ketones.