Type 1 child in EYFS

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Hi,
We have a child that has just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in my Reception class.

I would love to know if anyone has experience in managing this in a school with a child of this age? With it being in EYFS, children are not always in eye shot of you.

We will have to inject her with insulin and check her blood sugar levels.

Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
 
Welcome @Tehreem 🙂 Are you the teacher? Will this child have a TA responsible for their care? Has training been set up for you? Have the parents/parent been in to talk about things?

If the child was literally “just” diagnosed, they might be at home for a while getting used to their new routine. A child I knew had their parent come in at lunchtime initially to do their injection until staff were trained and the child/parent were more relaxed about things.

Diabetes U.K. has some basic information here:

Looking after a child with diabetes in school

www.diabetes.org.uk www.diabetes.org.uk

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I don’t think you can really have ‘tips’. It’s a serious medical condition and needs proper education, training and management.
 
You need to have at least 2 people (teacher or TA) fully trained up so that there is always one available to do whatever is necessary. Ideally you need to go on a proper training course, because it’s a very complicated condition. The child’s diabetes specialist nurse should be able to arrange this, ask the parents for contact details or whether they can arrange it. You will need to know how to manage insulin injections (or maybe the child will get a pump), blood tests, what to do if blood sugar is high or low, how to spot signs of this etc. If the child says they feel unwell or there is any other sign that something is amiss, someone needs to be able to deal with it immediately, it can’t wait until a convenient moment in the class. You can’t expect the child to be walking around looking for an adult or walking to where their supplies are kept if they are low. There are lots of things to be thinking about. Hope you can sort something out.
 
The schools team are usually very good at giving support and training and you will soon get used to the routines and spotting the ‘off’ signs of hypos and hypers. It might be hard to get the other kids to understand that sometimes sweets can be medicine
 
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