Life with Diabetes

There are virtually no sports that someone with Type 1 diabetes cannot play. The key is to be prepared and stay safe while exercising.

A good travel kit should include everything you’ll need to properly manage your diabetes, wherever you’re going. Most of the supplies listed are necessary for all diabetics.

It’s generally recommended that a child with diabetes wait at least 1-2 hours after eating before exercising. This provides enough time for the food to be digested and for insulin levels to be stabilized.

Before the redness and soreness can spread and cause your kid to groan in pain, you can prevent the pump site infection from escalating.

Your child can swim with an insulin pump, if it’s the right one. There are now waterproof insulin pumps that children can wear even while in water. 

Through the last 18 months, the support of the community — really various communities — of our son, our family, and my wife and me has been extraordinary.

You can set up the watch to pair with a Dexcom CGM transmitter and upload the data to the cloud service.

I decided to find a way to project our son’s real-time blood glucose readings unobtrusively on the ceiling of our bedroom.