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Low or high but no medium!!!!!

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Ah, no problem. I know our ultimate goal is 4-8 🙂 I have been trying for this perfection now and getting overly worried about the long term affects of him being 10+ so they were reassuring me I guess.

Out of interest, I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone reading this post what the average mmol readings that their children get on average each day?
 
Semarroy said:
Ah, no problem. I know our ultimate goal is 4-8 🙂 I have been trying for this perfection now and getting overly worried about the long term affects of him being 10+ so they were reassuring me I guess.

Out of interest, I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone reading this post what the average mmol readings that their children get on average each day?
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Well - there is no easy answer to that I'm afraid - some days we have lovely levels between 4 and 7 all day - other days we can be in the teens - but there is always a reason for it - the 'trick' is working out what it is....but this comes with practice and you will find your own answers as to why levels are high or low as each child is different. My son is 12 and uses a pump now and his hba1c is 7% - he used to be 9.6% on MDI - so we have much better control - he has been diagnosed for 2 years and has been on a pump for just over a year and we/he loves it much more than injections.🙂Bev
 
I don't think we have many days when all of her readings are in range - I cheer when they are though!! Most of the time when they are high or low I can see why (eg, ill or too much exercise). Now she is on MDI her readings are much nearer to in range than on 2 mixed injections. Things are getting better - she's been on MDI for about 6 months and I am learning to tweak her insulin to get better BG levels. It takes practice and a lot of trial and error tweaking! I wouldn't worry about going on a DAFNE course when you are ready to go on to MDI. Carb counting sounds much harder than it really is. There are loads of good books about : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carbs-Cals-...3028/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290257617&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Gem...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290257754&sr=1-1

We also use the Salter 1400 nutritional scales which have lots of foods programmed into it.

Before Katie moved to 4 a day, she moved to 3 a day so that she didn't have to inject at school - this was better than 2 a day but not as good as 4 a day - that might be worth thinking about until he is happy to do his own injections.

Gabi x
 
The 3 a day might be a good idea - thanks for that. I will run it past our diabetic nurse. He is much better from 4pm - till morning. It seems to be the day time that things can go so up and down. But we can pretty much identify why things happen. He only had 1 hypo last week, and that was at 2pm because he hadn't eaten enough at lunch. So it's just a matter of keeping on educating him. It's good to know that it's not just George that can't stay in the 4-8 every day! I was thinking it was just us!
 
When Carly was dx, the doctor said in children anything between 4 - 10 is good until she is more settled then between 4 - 7 is good
 
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