Child's blood sugar high since yesterday?!


Question: Child's blood sugar high since yesterday?
my 8 year old childs blood sugar has been high since yesterday. No ketones at all. Her blood sugar monitor was reading HI yesterday evening and i gave her her fast acting insulin as a correction and it brought it down a bit, then going to bed she had her night time snack (wheetabix) with her long acting one insulin for over night. When she woke this morning her blood sugar was 18.8 mmoh/L (fasting) she had her usual insulin (slow+novorapid), then at lunch time we checked it and it was 12mmoh/L (she gets no insulin at lunch time only at breakfast, dinner and evening snack) now she has checked it again just now and its reading 26.8mmo/L. She is having slight headache, but overall seems good, playing as usual. No ketones as i said before. I cannot reach her diabetic team at the hospital that looks after her, only answering machine that they are not there until tomorrow morning, and her gp won't be in surgery till 5.30 this evening. Any advice as to next step? Her morning blood sugars the last 2 days have been in the 18mmoh/L

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Sounds as if her insulin needs are changing. Maybe the honeymoon is ending or an illness is coming on...maybe a growth spurt. I recommend testing more frequently and adjusting dosage as needed. Good luck!

I have found the forums at http://forums.childrenwithdiabetes.com/f… very helpful. Just make a profile and ask your question there. You will get great advice from other parents.

Mother of 9 year old type 1 diabetic.



How long ago has she been diagnosed? Her honeymoon period may be ending, causing blood sugars to spike upwards. Call your child's pediatric endocrinologist and see what they say. They'll probably want to change the amount of long acting insulin and her short acting insulin.

Hope this helps! :)

Type 1 diabetic



a headache often indicates a cold. a cold WILL raise blood sugars.

Has none of her doctors given you an emergency number?? you may want to consider a trip to the ER. These numbers are EXCESSIVELY HIGH!!!



It could be a number of different things causing the high blood sugars for your daughter. One could be that she's 'rebounding' i.e. her blood's been low at some point in the day which causes it to bounce back and be high, 2- that she's coming down with something (viruses etc. can cause raised blood sugars), 3 - that she's having a growth spurt and needs more insulin.
Personally, I would check her BM's more often at the moment, just in case something is being missed (like low blood sugars), if my son's BM's are on the high side for a day I get him to check his sugar's every couple of hours or so....before morning insulin, 10am, just before lunch, 2pm, before dinner and then before he goes to bed. Every so often, if I'm still not happy with his readings then I'll test him even more often (every hour or so). This normally gives a good indication to what's going on, and helps me decide if more insulin is needed or not.
Hope your daughter's BM's stabalise soon, and those horrible headaches should stop for her as the bloods sugar get back to normal.

All the men in my family with diabetes , so quite a bit of experience to say the least!!!



This is crazy children should not be on medication so young when a disease is completely cureable, the doctors should be arrested for child abuse.

"A foolish faith in authority is the enemy of the truth"
Albert Einstein

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People who have diabetes run of to their doctor who doesn't understand how diabetes develops and doesn't understand how to cure it, its a mystery to them yet he fills peoples bodys full of harmful toxic chemicals in the for of medication. People return to the doctor for the rest of their life and will not be cured, the doctor keeps you a pharmaceutical customer for life while he gets back handers for pushing the drugs. But this NEVER cures diabetes, it only manages the problem and causes other side affects. Thousands of people are curing themselves of diabetes by natural treatments, mainly the diet.

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Anybody who advices you to go back to your doctor

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