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What does a child need to take to School?

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Hi - we’re parents of our recently diagnosed 13y old daughter who’s off back to school this week. Are they required to take their GlucaGen Hypo needle kit with them to school?
 
It's up to you, we’ve only got one and it stays in the fridge at home, haven’t ever needed it. School have instructions on how to treat hypos and will call an ambulance if daughter becomes unresponsive, which has never yet happened. We did send her with it when she went on a school trip to France last year, as luck would have it we had just got a new one because ours was out of date, so I was able to use the out of date one to demonstrate how to use it to the first aider who was going with her. But we don’t normally keep one at school. I know parents of primary school children who do though.
 
Her usual kit of meter, strips, insulin pen, needles, a small sharps box or similar, and some hypo treatments - whatever her usual is whether gluco tabs or lucozade sport or whatever. Small snacks for post hypo. I would also make sure she has carbs and cals or similar on her phone. Make sure school is aware she needs a phone with her (if that’s what you’ve decided). And I would put some gluco gel in her kit and check that it’s on her plan so someone knows it can be rubbed on the inside of her cheek if she can’t swallow. I wouldn’t do glucogen as it needs to be kept in the fridge and an ambulance should be called if she’s unresponsive at school anyway.
It may be worth getting her a medalert bracelet or necklace and making sure her emergency details on her phone show that she is type 1 diabetic (I can give details of how to put that on the home screen or emergency screen if you want)
 
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Her usual kit of meter, strips, insulin pen, needles, a small sharps box or similar, and some hypo treatments - whatever her usual is whether gluco tabs or lucozade sport or whatever. Small snacks for post hypo. I would also make sure she has carbs and cals or similar on her phone. Make sure school is aware she needs a phone with her (if that’s what you’ve decided). And I would put some gluco gel in her kit and check that it’s on her plan so someone knows it can be rubbed on the inside of her cheek if she can’t swallow. I wouldn’t do glucogen as it needs to be kept in the fridge and an ambulance should be called if she’s unresponsive at school anyway.
It may be worth getting her a medalert bracelet or necklace and making sure her emergency details on her phone show that she is type 1 diabetic (I can give details of how to put that on the home screen or emergency screen if you want)
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Great idea about the Emergency details in her phone - thank you.
 
How has the first day or two of term gone?
 
Great news @Cous25 - she is doing amazingly!
 
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