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Category: Insulin Pumps Diabetes Technology
Problem Solving High Blood Sugars with an Insulin Pump
Knowing what to do about high blood sugars or hyperglycemia is so important! We don’t want our kids with diabetes to end up in DKA (Diabetic Keto...
How to Lower your Child’s A1C with an Insulin Pump
The A1C is a 3 month average of what the blood sugar has been running. Sara’s A1C has bounced back and forth over the years. When it has been...
What’s a Basal Rate?
With type 1 diabetes, an important distinction for insulins is long-acting versus short or quick-acting. The longer lasting insulins are Lantus,...
Diabetes Blog Week: My Fantasy Device
Topic of the day for D-Blog Week: Tell us what your Fantasy Diabetes Device would be? Think of your dream blood glucose checker, delivery system for...
How to Decrease Pain for Children with Diabetes
Children with diabetes have to do many things that can be painful, overwhelming and scary. Glucose checks, shots, infusion set insertions, having...
Diabetes Blog Week: One Thing to Improve Upon
Diabetes Blog Week at Bittersweet Diabetes: Topic for the Day: “Yesterday we gave ourselves and our loved ones a big pat on the back for one thing...
One Great Thing: Diabetes Blog Week
Day two for Diabetes Blog Week: Topic for today is One Great Thing, so we are thinking about what’s one great thing we are doing for our diabetes...