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Hypos & how to treat with a 4 year old
Hi all, my daughter has been diagnosed with T1D 2 weeks now. She is only 4. We’re struggling with night time, she tends to get the majority of her hypos in the night (they’ve now changed her levimer to 1, hopefully it helps). But when she has a low we tend to treat with apple juice. This is... -
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Insulin before Versus after Food?
My five year old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1, two days ago whilst on holiday. Hospital 1 gave fast acting as Insulin dose after counting the carbs of what she’d actually eaten fit breakfast/lunch etc. Hospital 2 gives fast acting insulin dose pre meal based on what food she’s been...- Franlee6
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CGM-pump or not? + Freestyle Libre
Hello Our 11 month son has recently been diagnosed with type 1. For the last month we've been getting to grips with finger-pricking, injections and hypos dealt with beakers full of lucazade. The local hospital has offered us the following pumps and said that it might be possible for us to... -
Our 5 year old son recently diagnosed type 1
Hi, we are very new to the forum, site and diabetes! We took our son to the GP last Tuesday after we had noticed he had been drinking much more than normal and he had started bed wetting, which was completely out of character for him. Glucose and ketones were found in his sample and we were sent...