Questions Archive

Please let us know about where you live.

We ask for your birth date so that we can limit what is used on the website if you are under 18.

If you don't know the exact day, don't worry. Just choose the correct month and/or correct year and note this in your story.

Please tell us about yourself and your connection to diabetes.

If you have a photo, upload it here.

Please include a short bio of yourself so we can consider it for inclusion with the story. This will appear underneath your photo.

By submitting my information, photo, and/or video, I give Children with Diabetes permission to use my story, imagery, photograph(s), and/or video(s), in its promotional materials and publicity efforts. I understand that the imagery may be used in, but not limited to, a publication, print ad, direct-mail piece, electronic media, or other form or promotion; and that my name and additional information collected by the organization may be used in conjunction with the image(s). I release Children with Diabetes from liability for any violation of any personal or proprietary right I may have in connection with such use.

If you would like to have the answer emailed to you, please include your email address.

Please tell us where you live (city, state, and country). This information can help us answer your question.

To preserve confidentiality, we strongly recommend that you do not include in your question any information that identifies you, your child, or any other individual. Please note: questions that are published may be edited for space and clarity.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

CWD Answers Archives

Search Questions:

Category Filters:

All Questions

My daughter is 9 years old. She was diagnosed with Type 1 slightly over a year ago. In the past year, her blood sugar was good, till last month her blood sugar was from 200 to 400 for a month.

I am a 38 year old female. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes one month ago. How common is it for a woman my age to get type 1 diabetes?

My six year old daughter has been diabetic since the age of two. I seem to remember that there is a certain number of carbs that it covered by a unit of insulin. I have searched through my own information as well as that on the web and can’t seem to find the ratio anywhere.

Our newborn nephew weighing 5 pounds 8 ounces), was put on a drip to raise his blood sugar level. We were wondering if this could be a sign of diabetes or if this was a common thing with newborn babies.

I’ve been reading many of the previously asked questions recently to understand why my daughter’s readings fluctuate so much. I just read that a sliding scale shouldn’t be used.

I have recently relocated to Iowa and am changing doctors. When I made an appointment with a Family Practice doctor, they scheduled me for lab work. I was asked to fast for a hemoglobin A1c. Can you tell me why this is important or necessary?

My 5 year old son was diagnosed with Type 1 when he was 19 months old. Recently he has been complaining that his stomach hurts but no other symptoms. My husband is concerned that he may have a problem that he had read about a long time ago in a Diabetes Forecast article.

My two year old son was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Since then we have had relatively “good” control of it. This last month however he has started to trend high. Are complications due to high blood sugars in the short term, or do they have to be like that many years?

A friend told me they had seen on a TV news article about a monitor that could tell if a diabetic had low blood sugar. In the news article, a small girl wears the monitor and when the teacher would notice the monitor is low, they would get the girl a snack.

Help Us Understand You Better.

Type in Your Question Here.

CWD Answers Archives

Search Questions:

Category Filters:

All Questions

Social