Delighted to announce after the success of the site we have moved to a new domain. I have big plans for the future of Children With Type 1 ...
Friday, 29 January 2016
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Our First Type 1 Teen Trauma
So this week it finally happened. Our first Type 1 Teen Trauma. Technically he's 12 so not a Teen yet but Jack started secondary school in ...
Friday, 22 January 2016
Freestyle Libre For Children - Review 2016
The Freestyle Libre burst onto the pharmaceutical market at the end of 2014, the World's first Flash Glucose Monitoring System. With a mark...
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Average HBA1C By Age - Children with Type 1 Diabetes
As part of my recent study to understand what affects HBA1C results in Children with Type 1 Diabetes, today I wanted to look at the average...
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Does CGMS Improve Blood Glucose Control in Children?
Today I wanted to share with you the findings of my study to discover if CGMS improves blood glucose control in children.
WHAT DOES CGMS STAND FOR?
CGMS stands for Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. A very basic explanation of CGMS, a user wears a sensor on their body that checks the glucose levels in interstitial fluid, a transmitter then sends this constant data to a display, therefore users can see constantly what their levels are. They also have alarms for high and low levels.
At this time very few children in the UK have access to CGMS, funding from the NHS is not readily available in most areas, therefore many parents self fund these expensive systems.
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Insulin Pump VS MDI - Which Gives The Best Control For Children With Type 1 Diabetes
Insulin Pump VS MDI, it's a dilemma for many parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes, at some point in their journey. The benefits of an insulin pump are promoted as giving better control and also improving quality of life, though for most people the transition from MDI to Insulin Pump is quite scary.
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Does My Child Have Diabetes?
Does my child have Diabetes? This is the question I started asking myself a couple of weeks before Christmas in 2013, if you're asking yourself this very question read on to discover our story and the facts about Type 1 Diabetes Symptoms.
As a family we have always been Diabetes aware to some degree as my Grandmother developed Type 1 Diabetes in later years, and my Dad has Type 2. Though not all children diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes have a relative with the condition.
Some time between September and December my 10 year old son started to lose weight. By mid December he had lost at least a stone, whilst he was probably on the heavier side he could never be described as fat but suddenly he became very slim. To be fair he looked great, I put the weight loss down to him being more active now the football season had started.
Around November he seemed to have days where he was very thirsty. Not every day though, I put this down to the fact that he wasn't drinking enough on some days so was really thirsty on others. I then started to notice that if we stopped at the shop on the way home from school he became more concerned with buying a drink than an after school snack. The thirst at times though was insatiable, he'd down a couple of large glasses in a row. Both Grandmothers even commented on it andit was ath that point that i really thought I should get him checked out.
Though as most modern day Mums do I first turned to Dr Google! I had googled "Does My Child Have Diabetes" and whilst most articles online described the thirst and weight loss as a symptom, many articles led me to believe that if he did have Type 1 Diabetes he would be feeling very poorly indeed and this just wasn't the case with my son.
As a family we have always been Diabetes aware to some degree as my Grandmother developed Type 1 Diabetes in later years, and my Dad has Type 2. Though not all children diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes have a relative with the condition.
Some time between September and December my 10 year old son started to lose weight. By mid December he had lost at least a stone, whilst he was probably on the heavier side he could never be described as fat but suddenly he became very slim. To be fair he looked great, I put the weight loss down to him being more active now the football season had started.
Around November he seemed to have days where he was very thirsty. Not every day though, I put this down to the fact that he wasn't drinking enough on some days so was really thirsty on others. I then started to notice that if we stopped at the shop on the way home from school he became more concerned with buying a drink than an after school snack. The thirst at times though was insatiable, he'd down a couple of large glasses in a row. Both Grandmothers even commented on it andit was ath that point that i really thought I should get him checked out.
Though as most modern day Mums do I first turned to Dr Google! I had googled "Does My Child Have Diabetes" and whilst most articles online described the thirst and weight loss as a symptom, many articles led me to believe that if he did have Type 1 Diabetes he would be feeling very poorly indeed and this just wasn't the case with my son.
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