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My son has had Type 1 diabetes for two years. Since that time he has found it hard to have any drive. The high school he is attending wants to keep him back because of excessive absences (25).

I know a 4 year old with Downs Syndrome and IDDM who drinks 3-4 bottles of milk each day. What effect does that have on blood sugars and what can a child with IDDM drink?

What should an insulin dependent 7 year old who has been diagnosed for 3 years eat for breakfast?

My 15 year old daughter is overweight and my husband has Type 1 diabetes. I took my daughter to the doctor and they noticed a skin discoloration in the skin on her knees, behind her neck and under her arms. The doctor mentioned that she was making too much insulin. Now we are checking for diabetes.

What is considered too low for a blood sugar reading?

What do you think about the new “strips” which read for lab equivalent results, and not whole blood?

There’s diabetes in our family. How are we going to be able to prevent our other family members from getting diabetes?

My son is a 5 year old Type 1 Diabetic and was diagnosed at the age of 4. Do you have any information on the benefits of Vitamin O?

Is it true that the child can eat all kinds of food and I can simply increase the dose for her without any complication?

My 10 year daughter has had approximately 8-9 seizures in the last 4-5 years. At the start, she was not diabetic. After the first 2 seizures, she was put on Tegretol because of a perceived seizure disorder. Later she developed diabetes. How low does blood sugar need to be to cause a seizure?

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