[blparent] Caring for child with type 1 diabetes

[Star Gazer]

I have a friend with a glucose monitor, it seems to monitor her in real time. Might they make those for children? 
Another option would be to test her glucose after she eats, when I was pregnant with my second, I had to do this. 
I'm not sure how you reduce the mess while eating, if you figure that out, I'd love the tip. Something to think about, how do other parents meature the consumption to loss ratio and how does the doctor know the reported differences are accurate?
I ask because I'm wondering if the bar is set impossibly high for your husband since they think he can't meet it? My thinking is that the doctor isn't in the homes of his/her patents and so has no way to know if his/her report techniques are accurate, and that there must be a hard metric that can be used.   

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From: BlParent <blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Heather Collazo via BlParent
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:19 PM
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Cc: Heather Collazo <h.m.collazo33 at gmail.com>
Subject: [blparent] Caring for child with type 1 diabetes

Hello all,

My husband and I are looking for guidance for caring for a child with type 1 diabetes. My husband is blind and I am not; however, he is the primary caretaker of our children while I go to school. Our two year old was recently diagnosed with diabetes and we need to get creative when trying to find a way to do a lot of the daily tasks of diabetes management. My husband has had type 1 diabetes since he was 11 months old, so he knows what needs to be done. It is just difficult when trying to gauge how many carbohydrates our toddler eats at the meals that I am not home. Often the food ends up in her seat, on the floor, flung onto the walls or fed to the guide dog, because it seems like fun to a toddler. So while he can use measuring cups to figure out how much he gives her, it’s a challenge once she’s eaten to say exactly how much of it. So he is reticent to dose her insulin at a high enough dosage because it could be too much and she could have a severe low. Also, since we are new, our pediatric endocrinologist needs us to call in her daily blood sugars with carb counts, dosing of insulin, and report lows or highs and times. So far, I have been writing things down in a booklet, but my husband wants to take this on since I am tied up at school during the day and this needs to be done by noon every day. We have a marker board by the fridge where he can write things down, and I can transcribe into the booklet, but this isn’t going to work if he wants to be able to call the nurse and tell her. That is too much to remember. This is a unique situation, but I’m sure we aren’t the first ones to go through any of this. 

Best,
Heather

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