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Insulin pump is good choice for kids with type 1 diabetes
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My husband teaches at an outdoor school for fifth and sixth graders, and a few weeks back one of his students was using an insulin pump. She was doing the four-night sleepover with the rest of the kids from her school, with her mom along to make sure that things were going alright for her. I've known a few children with type 1 diabetes, but she was the first I'd met who used an insulin pump. Her mom said that it was working out really well for her. A recent look at children and teens using the pumps seconds this family's experience. Kids using the pumps were found to have more success in monitoring their blood sugar levels, and "had fewer episodes of severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)." It seems to me that the pump not only helps with managing diabetes, it gives diabetic kids more freedom.
My grandfather was a doctor for many years, and he administered one of the first shots of penicillin in the state of Arkansas (US). It amazes me how far medicine has come in the past fifty years, and it's really great to see such useful advances being made.
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11-11-2006 @ 2:02PM
Lauren said...I have a co-worker who uses an insulin pump for type 1 diabetes and it has truly changed his life.
He said he especially feels more comfortable in social settings, and is free to go out to eat and drink with others and not have to test, administer insulin, etc. I'm sure this would be a big plus for kids as well.
Modern medicine is a wonderful thing.
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11-11-2006 @ 4:04PM
Nic said...I think you must have meant your grandfather used INSULIN for the first time, not penicillin? As a pumper, I can tell you they are fantastic, but not a cure. You trade one set of problems for another. And they are very expensive (try $5000-$7000 just for the pump, without supplies) making them available only to those with good insurance.
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11-11-2006 @ 9:26PM
jenifer scharpen said...Hi Nic,
I did mean penicillin, actually.
You have an excellent point about the cost of insulin pumps that I didn't address. It's unfortunate that the cost is so high. Hopefully, like other types of technology, the price will come down rather than rise.
Thanks for your comment!
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