Comments on: pumps for children (benita) http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/ for anyone who has been touched by this disease Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:04:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: dawna_15 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3422 dawna_15 Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:30:23 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3422 Well, right now my son only has one injection a day in the morning, so the rest of the day we can forget about that, just have to do the testing. Plus he's only on one kind, the cloudy kind. So I just have to worry about his highs and lows and counting his carbs. He's in the honeymoon period. Benita hey would rather not get an injection several times a day. Well, right now my son only has one injection a day in the morning, so the rest of the day we can forget about that, just have to do the testing. Plus he’s only on one kind, the cloudy kind. So I just have to worry about his highs and lows and counting his carbs. He’s in the honeymoon period.
Benita

hey would rather not get an injection
several times a day.

]]> By: Denise Elayne http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3421 Denise Elayne Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:25:32 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3421 Hi, Angela, First, I disagree totally with your doctors' suggestion that a child should be over 10 before using a pump. A child can wear a pump long before he or she is the one actually pushing the buttons on it. The idea that a diabetic needs to be "stable" before switching from NPH to lantus is even more bizarre. That's like saying, "She's not stable yet, so let's keep her on the less stable form of insulin." It is not a needle which is in the skin all the time when someone wears a pump. It is a plastic canula, a thin tube. There are pros and cons to wearing a pump, but I think that if you explained the differences to most children, they would preder the pump. They would rather adjusst their insulin around their lives than adjust their lives to their insulin. They would rather not get an injection <!--more--> several times a day. Just my opinion. Jerry Hi, Angela,
First, I disagree totally with your doctors’ suggestion that a child
should be over 10 before using a pump. A child can wear a
pump long before he or she is the one actually pushing the
buttons on it.
The idea that a diabetic needs to be “stable” before switching
from NPH to lantus is even more bizarre. That’s like saying,
“She’s not stable yet, so let’s keep her on the less stable form of
insulin.”
It is not a needle which is in the skin all the time when someone
wears a pump. It is a plastic canula, a thin tube. There are pros
and cons to wearing a pump, but I think that if you explained the
differences to most children, they would preder the pump. They
would rather adjusst their insulin around their lives than adjust
their lives to their insulin. They would rather not get an injection

several times a day.
Just my opinion.
Jerry

]]> By: dawna_15 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3420 dawna_15 Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:11:12 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2003/08/12/pumps-for-children-benita/#comment-3420 thanks, Angela. :) It's sure good to know there are others out there like us. Benita thanks, Angela. :) It’s sure good to know there are others out there like us.
Benita

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