Kids with diabetes forgetting to monitor blood sugar

[Northerner]

YOUNG Australians with diabetes may not be monitoring their disease as well as possible, a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare revealed.

The report showed some 31,300 Australians, aged 30 years or younger, were registered as having diabetes in 2009-10, 79% of whom had the lifelong Type 1 disease.

The Type 1 disease is a lifelong auto-immune disease which needs regular injections of insulin every day.

And while the administration of insulin was required many times each day, the report shows many young people were not being thorough enough monitoring their blood sugar levels.

http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/kids-diabetes-forgetting-monitor-blood-sugar/1651834/

 

[trophywench]

Well - so what do they propose doing about that? eg reducing the co-pay element or what?

 

[heasandford]

and all the more reason for automatic CGM - with alarms if required!

 

[bennyg70]

I know from experience growing up with type 1, I went for YEARS at a time without taking a single blood test. Im certainly making up for it now with about 10 per day!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

I went for well over 20 years with no home blood sugar tests.
Simple reason they hadn't been invented back in 1066.