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Hypoglycemia

My friend’s three year old has diabetes. He is in a legal battle over custody because he feels his child is in danger The problem is that the other care giver has and is consistently dropping the child’s sugar well below 70 mg/dl [3.9 mmol/L], most of the times in the 40s [mg/dl, 2.2 mmol/L]. He has hot-lined the mother with child services, but they say without proof that the low blood sugars are harming the child, they can do nothing.

My father has brittle diabetes and his episodes of hypoglycemia are increasing all the time. My mother is frantic and is not sure what to do.

My 22 year old daughter, diagnosed as type 1 diabetes 11 years ago, recently delivered her first baby. During the pregnancy she had several episodes of low blood sugar with seizures. I’m curious about just how bad can a low blood sugar get and what resuscitation is necessary.

My son was diagnosed with hypoglycemia when he was 10 months old. At that time, the endocrinologist said it was very rare and only two other children in the world besides my son had it.

I’m in between specialists now and want to confirm the glucagon dosage for my five year old daughter. She is type 1, has had diabetes for 22 months, and is forty pounds. My old specialist said to mix all of the glucagon but to only inject her with half of the vial.

My son is 9 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 1 1/2 years ago. He has had approximately 8 seizures in the last 6 weeks while sleeping.

I am a school bus driver, and I will be transporting a child who has diabetes. I want to know what to do, besides the obvious of contacting an ambulance, if he passes out or has a seizure. Is there anything that I could do until the paramedics get there?

I am 52 years old, and when I was younger, I could always feel when my blood sugars were low or high; now I must check my blood to tell what my blood sugars are; sometimes I can function just fine when my blood sugars are below 30 mg/dl [1.7 mmol/L].

My 12 year old daughter is terrified of going hypo during the night and of late is testing before bed, often with the result that she feels she needs to fuel up before going to bed to avoid going hypo. What is a reasonable blood count to expect or aim for at bedtime with fairly reasonable expectation of not going hypo before breakfast?

My seven year old daughter, diagnosed at age three with type 1 diabetes, is on only a morning injection of Actrapid and Monotard, and I still fear night time hypos. She rarely has them, but, when she does, they’re really bad.