My two and a half year old son was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and I noticed that when we go to places like festivals or theme parks his blood sugar will drop severely. He can start off with a sugar of 177 mg/dl [9.8 mmol/L]and be down to 40 mg/dl [2.2 mmol/L] in an hour. Most of the time he is just mildly active. What is making his levels drop so quickly? I thought that from excitement his levels would go up.

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