My eleven year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 11 months ago. He had the classic symptoms of extreme thirst and frequent urination, but only intermittently. He has always had an exaggerated roll of fat around his middle, but he isn't really heavy anywhere else. He's very physically active, so the fat has nothing to do with lack of exercise. At diagnosis, he presented with a non-fasting blood glucose of 415 mg/dl [23.1 mmol/L], a C-peptide value of 0.7, and he tested negative for islet cell antibodies. He is on very low doses of insulin (10 units of NPH and 5 units of Humalog daily), and we frequently lower the dose when heavy activity is expected. As I think back, he has had some weird issues with milk and dairy products since he was very young and was on soy formula until he was almost two and a half years old. It was after we moved him to regular dairy that he began developing that roll of fat around his middle. I have read that many people with diabetes test positive for milk and dairy intolerance. Is it possible that my son's diabetes has been actually a reaction to some sort of allergy? If his diabetes was triggered by an allergy, could this be making him insulin resistant? If we eliminate the offending food from his diet could we possibly get him off of insulin injections?

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.