Amanda had a great time at camp. But, we've had to increase her basal rates since. Yesterday after swimming all day. Her blood sugar reached the 400's and decided to camp there for the evening. I changed her site and increased her insulin again. My sweet friends posted suggestions for me. I always forget about increasing her water intake. Next pool day, I will make sure she is drinking a lot of water. Also, my friend who recently moved from Alaska to Arizona said that the heat and insulin do not mix well. She was told to change the site every two days when temperatures are above 93. I've not heard that before. I'm guessing with her pump in the heat all day, it could have made the insulin go bad. Anymore feed back is welcome! By 1:30 she was at 101. Time alerted us. We have set her parameters to be 100-200. Yes, we've tightened it up a bit. But her A1-c has come down from 8.3 to 7. 3 in 3 months.
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Hey girl. Dr. Latif has always had us changing Sky's sites every two days. He said that with them being outside so much and being children that they are more tough on their sites (and the heat on the insulin). During school we changed sites every Tues. and Thurs. and then we went 3 days to push the change to Sunday (that way we kept up with when the last change was). I could ALWAYS tell a difference in her sugars from Thurs to Sundays set changes with waiting 3 days. It was never a MAJOR difference, but it was one that was noticeable!
Amanda :)
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