Hi, would appreciate a bit of advice please - I think now's the time to look into a pump for my six year old. Do these sound like good reasons?
He has around 2-4 hypos per week on his current MDI regime and is largely hypo unaware and they are very hard to spot. At 2.8mmls he can be jumping around and lively so not obvious!
I think the pump would mean we could give him insullin and offer correction doses more flexibly without risking as many hypos. He's six years old and very tall and broad for his age with a slim build. He needs to eat but his tummys still little so he might have a breakfast of cereal, then want toast 30 mins later. But not all the time and he's not very good as anticipating when he might want to eat more, understandable at six. I do give correction doses on these occasions but some days I just feel he's getting like a pin cushion.
Finally, he experiences big blood sugar changes at night, numbers soaring high, then getting into a hypo by 3am.
Do you think a pump would help these things? We are arranging for him to do a week with a continuous glucose monitor on, mainly to work out what's going on at night, but I'm thinking that if he doesn't mind wearing that, it might be a good time to move onto a pump.
His consultant has mentioned a pump for the last few appointments, because of his lack of hypo awareness so I think we wouldn't have a fight on our hands, it's just working out if it's right for our son?
Sorry, long post, but any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
He has around 2-4 hypos per week on his current MDI regime and is largely hypo unaware and they are very hard to spot. At 2.8mmls he can be jumping around and lively so not obvious!
I think the pump would mean we could give him insullin and offer correction doses more flexibly without risking as many hypos. He's six years old and very tall and broad for his age with a slim build. He needs to eat but his tummys still little so he might have a breakfast of cereal, then want toast 30 mins later. But not all the time and he's not very good as anticipating when he might want to eat more, understandable at six. I do give correction doses on these occasions but some days I just feel he's getting like a pin cushion.
Finally, he experiences big blood sugar changes at night, numbers soaring high, then getting into a hypo by 3am.
Do you think a pump would help these things? We are arranging for him to do a week with a continuous glucose monitor on, mainly to work out what's going on at night, but I'm thinking that if he doesn't mind wearing that, it might be a good time to move onto a pump.
His consultant has mentioned a pump for the last few appointments, because of his lack of hypo awareness so I think we wouldn't have a fight on our hands, it's just working out if it's right for our son?
Sorry, long post, but any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
