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If you’re a caregiver of a child living with type 1, how often do you wake your child up when they need a low snack in the middle of the night?
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I don’t have a child with T1D but I myself am woken several nights a month with my CHM alerting me to do something about an impending low, even though it tells my tandem pump to stop delivering insulin. So there is that, disruptive sleep.
I have no human children, just a service dog. My parents would wake my brother (T1D too) and I if they heard us having a low. Back in the day’s of urnine testing and 2 shots a day of R and NPH, they generally gave us a double snack if we were “blue” and acting low. Because no one want’s to call the ambulance in the middle of the night.
Our usual treatment is a spoonful of jam in her cheek. Our granddaughter is 5 and rarely wakes up.
She will drink juice in her sleep
My 2 sons are T1d, they are now 36 and 29, I answered I don’t have a child with T1D. However, when they were young, all night long I set my alarm for every 2 hours. Checking both. We only had test kits, no CGMs until my oldest was in high school. In fact, they both were in the program for testing for the very first Dexcom.