- I have type 1 diabetes.
My parents and I were always worried
that my blood sugar was gonna go too low,
at school, on my own, especially at night.
How can we reduce our fear
that I’m going to have lows?
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- Great question.
Most kids with type one diabetes and their parents
do worry about their sugar going low,
referred to as hypoglycemia.
We examined this in the study looking at kids,
who going on pump therapy with CGM,
continuous glucose monitoring,
with the option of low glucose suspend, called LGS.
What that does is it looks at whether your sugar
is going low, which the CGM sees.
When it is, it automatically stops the delivery of insulin
and the sugar can rise to a safe level.
CHEO led this study at about five pediatric sites in Ontario.
And 28% of the patients in the study came from CHEO,
which is great.
So we found that when kids wear an insulin pump with CGM,
with the option of LGS,
that this had a significant impact on what they did
to avoid hypoglycemia because of fear of it.
Even more significant, what it did was it decreased
how much they worried about hypoglycemia,
both during the day, whether in public, at school,
and while sleeping.
And that's great news.
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