Diabetes question

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Just a quick question, can stress contribute with low or high blood sugar?

I have a TD-1 and this is my second year with him, but he always seems to have really high blood sugar, and I'm not sure if can be contributed that he's just nervous or stressed since it's basically the 4th day of school. (Hurricane Harvey interrupted our first week of school.) But I am a bit worried, and have mentioned this to his mom and doctor already.

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Not mean at all - I do the same. I will figure out the carbs if the kid is buying from our cafe, we have an easy to read list of carb counts for the cafe lunch items. If bringing from home I ask parents to either email carb count or put a note in the lunch box - rarely do I need to call parents for the info.

I bought little notebooks for my DM kiddos lunch boxes. Mom will write the date and carbs and you can fit many days on a page. Of course, this only works if you have compliant parents, I'm lucky that I do.

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Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.

His mother has been in the doctor a lot, suffering from TD 1 too and I had a scare this week where his glucose was in 300s for 2 hours and it would not go down and his Ketones were large. I had to call the doctor of his and explain the issue and get some input. He got picked up and I was told that he may need to have syringes here to inject his insulin in case this happens again. Apparently his pod wasn't installed right and it wasn't giving him the dose he needed. It was a scary situation.

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