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My four and a half year old daughter has had some high blood sugars, is always hungry, has mood swings, gets up during the night to use the bathroom. Are there any conditions other than diabetes cause glucose levels to rise?

My nine year old daughter has had type 1 diabetes since she was two years old. She gets this pain in her left side of her stomach that is so bad she can’t move, but by the time we get her to the hospital it’s gone. Have you ever heard of any such thing? The doctors won’t do anything about it.

Our 13 year old daughter has been blacking out for about a month. While she was home on vacation, and eating regularly, she never experienced a blackout, but, now that school has started up, she has started blacking out again. We think it’s her eating pattern. Could this be hypoglycemia?

What is the internal structure of blood glucose monitoring systems?

My 10 year old son has been using a pump with Humalog insulin for about two months. He occasionally has significant “highs” soon after changing the infusion set.

My friend’s 10 year old son with diabetes. She keeps talking about “juvenile double jeopardy diabetes”. I am unable to find anything on this. Is there such a disease? If so, what are the symptoms, and effects?

I daycare a child who is two and one-half years old and has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. What kinds of foods can I give?

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