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CGMs…a Few Points….Parents: We have NO Clue what Our Kids Feel About Nightime Lows!

  CGMs.  Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are fabulous devices.  They not only remotely give you an idea on your blood glucose number they also indicate where one is trending (blood sugar rising and/or dropping). The new Dexcom G4 Platinum looks to be a modern, thinner, easier to read, and more accurate CGM.  The Dexcom website states […]

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I Would Not Tell You What To Do….no…No…NO!

  Two friends are having lunch.  A third person joins them and says, “Hey, did you see the clown out front?” One friend responds, “Was it a real clown or one dressed as one?” My point; people hear (or in this case, read) something but do not catch the full meaning.  I posted something two days […]

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My Child, When Low….Will Wake up…..Right? Um…..Not Necessarily.

I had the opportunity to hear Jeff Hitchcock present this weekend and he addressed night-time testing and the ‘thought’ that our kids wake up when they feel low. It is thought by many (us…..definitely) that should our kids start to feel low while they sleep they wake up.  I know for me it was a […]

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Why Do We Get Up in the Middle of the Night?

    A friend of mine asked me recently if I still get up in the middle of the night to check our children’s BG numbers?  My answer was only if we feel there might me circumstances that happened during the day that might add to the possibilities of them running low. SInce she asked […]