The American Diabetes Association (ADA) issued a statement expressing extreme disappointment in the California Court of Appeal ruling in the case of American Nurses Association et al. v. O’Connell, which prevents non-medical school personnel from volunteering to administer insulin to California schoolchildren who are not yet able to self-manage their disease...
Tag: Children
I took my sons for routine blood tests this week, and given that they are the offspring of two type 1 diabetics, you can imagine the fears in the back…
We ate Kraft singles on white bread, chewy granola bars, potato chips, graham crackers, and popsicles...
Diabetes UK reports more than 3,000 emergency hospital admissions a year for children with diabetes.
The latest figures show that last year there were more than 3,300 cases of children in England admitted to accident and emergency departments with Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)....
We pricked his 18-month-old fingers with a spring-loaded needle gun, and milked his blood onto coded strips ...he couldn’t do much more than cry. Which he did. All the time.
I just saw an article in USA Today about how the school nurse shortage is affecting kids with diabetes and it made me very grateful, as I always am,…