icon-nav-help
Need Help

Submit your question to our team of health care professionals.

icon-nav-current-questions
Current Question

See what's on the mind of the community right now.

icon-conf-speakers-at-a-glance
Meet the Team

Learn more about our world-renowned team.

icon-nav-archives
CWD Answers Archives

Review the entire archive according to the date it was posted.

icon-question-mark

DTeam Archives

My 16 year son was diagnosed 1 month ago. He is just starting wrestling and wants to drop weight. He is skipping lunch and just not taking a dose of Humalog. He is also exercising excessively. So far his sugars are in the 70-100 range. How long until he runs into problems?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

My daughter has had type 1 since 16 months and was formula fed since birth. I am pregnant with my second child and am wondering which formulas are cow’s milk based and which have the proteins broken down to peptides? What formula would be the safest for me to feed the new baby, based on a sibling having type 1?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

My 3 year old daughter was diagnosed type 1 six weeks ago. We have not been checking her blood sugar levels at night at first as we were told this was not necessary. It seems probable that she has been too low at night for the past few weeks! How would this have affected her?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

I know how insulin was discovered, but why is insulin called insulin (how did it get its name)?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

My 10 year old son has been a type 1 diabetic for almost 2 years. Recently, he went into seizures from low blood sugars. Now I get up at 3:00 A.M. every morning to check his blood glucose. Is it possible that he could have suffered mild seizures from low blood glucose in his sleep before, and we never knew it?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

My daughter is seven years old and she is diabetic. Now, there is a new problem: the last test of antibodies antiendomyseal IgG is positive 79 units with the ELISA method. How much possibility does she have of being celiac?

February 18, 2000
Posted in:
Read

I am a 26 year old Type 1 diabetic and I was diagnosed 6 years ago. I am currently using an insulin pump with Humalog. I am planning to get pregnant in the near future. What do you consider to be a good A1c number — prepregnancy?

February 15, 2000
Posted in: ,
Read

I recently read in a local newspaper that an early symptom, among others, of diabetes was what appears to be dirt on a child’s neck that won’t wash off. My 8 year boy has this. Is it true about the dirt like markings around the neck?

February 15, 2000
Posted in:
Read

I am a type 1 diabetic, and I was wondering what info you could give me on the protein they are testing on lab mice that has cured their diabetes, and how it affects people.

February 15, 2000
Posted in:
Read

I was wondering if there is any research out there about childhood diabetes and bipolar disorders.

February 15, 2000
Posted in:
Read