When he came home from school, I was waiting to look at his meter. I had received a text from the school saying that he had a very high blood sugar level around lunchtime. I couldn’t think off the top of my head why that would have happened. The pump site was fine, his insulin was good, he didn’t have anything out of the ordinary in his lunch. His blood sugar was in range at 10:00 for recess, up to 21.4 by lunchtime (about 385mg/dL), and back down to normal range at 2:00 after his insulin and lunch. So, what had happened? [Read more…]
Mama of a Child with Type 1 Diabetes: This is for You
Low Blood Sugar at School – Treatment and Prevention
As a parent of a type 1 diabetic, one of the biggest fears is low blood sugar at school. Everything is hectic in a classroom, the teacher has many students to supervise, and the person in charge of diabetes care likely only pops in at scheduled times to check blood sugar and give insulin. But what happens when your child goes low? Diabetes doesn’t like to stick to a schedule after all.
The Quick Guide to Trick or Treating with T1D
Your child has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and Halloween is fast approaching. You have been concerned about what to do with all the candy. Should you skip trick or treating entirely? Should you go anyway to allow your child to feel more “normal”?
When you ask more experienced T1 parents how to approach trick or treating with T1D, you are met with an overwhelming, “do what you did before diagnosis. Go trick or treating. Let them be a kid.” But to a parent of a newly diagnosed T1 kiddo, that can be a scary concept. How exactly do you do what you did before while managing T1D?
Here are some tips and tricks that will allow you and your child to enjoy Halloween, even with T1D tagging along.
[Read more…]The Hidden Danger of Kids and Remote Meters
When my son’s blood sugar goes low, we treat it. It comes back into normal range with one or two “doses” of sugar. But this time, it didn’t. It wasn’t because of his diabetes, it was because of something he did. He caused a low that could have given him a seizure. He caused a low that could have put him in a coma. And he did it for one simple reason. [Read more…]
Finding the Positive
My son was two months shy of his third birthday when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In an instant, we went from everyday normal playing and enjoying life with our family and friends to being completely overwhelmed and bombarded with new and scary information. It’s hard to stay positive when something so shocking happens.