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What do you recommend for a 19 month old with type 1 diabetes and a severe stomach virus (vomiting, loose bowels) who is battling low sugar even after reducing insulin? It’s extremely difficult to get her to drink or eat anything. Nothing is appetizing to her with her stomach upset.

My partner has type 1 diabetes and doesn’t manage it very well. Are there any long-term damaging effects of hypoglycemia? When someone is seizing, anything else I can do aside from force feeding honey?

Will a mixture of Humalog and NPH take longer to become effective than just Humalog alone?

I am a 23 year old girl, whose my parents are considering my marriage with a 28 year old guy who has type 1 diabetes. We are in love with each other, but my parents are very concerned and do not want me to consider him anymore. I have several questions.

When I change my catheter site to my upper abdomen, after a day, I start to feel pain. I have no problems in my lower abdomen. Nothing I do seems to help. What am I doing wrong?

I have had type 1 diabetes for 32 year and currently use an insulin pump with Humalog. Meats such as chicken, beef, and pork, at some point, digest into carbohydrates. At what rate or the time does it take for this process to happen?

Are gallstones a complication of juvenile diabetes?

My five year old daughter, who was diagnosed with type I diabetes a year ago, has recently been complaining of headaches and “slanted vision”? Her vision is 20/20 and everything else seems fine. What is the cause of it?

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