What can i do? concerning my 7 yr old son's school here in Ontario. He was diagnosed almost a year ago.....

Question

Of Diabetes#1 insulin depandant(but doesn't need insulin during school) so far. My 4yr old daughter is starting kindergarten(half days). Last yr went to his school daily at his lunchtime to give him his lunchtime blood sugar test (which is only a prick in the finger) of course I was willing to do it. Anyways, the school does not want to do his blood sugar test. And my daughter will be starting junior kindergarten which is half days, so it will be pretty busy. Any good suggestions of how i can get the school to do an easy blood sugar test to my son?? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanku.

Answer 1

Teach him to do his test himself.  I had a five year old in a kindergarten class and I was willing to do the test for him, and we started out the year with me doing the test, but by mid-year, he smiled and said "You know, I know how to do it myself."  I was surprised, but sat with him each time and watched him do it himself.  He knew when his sugar was too high and that he shouldn't eat yet, he knew how to change the lancet if it needed to be changed, and all he needed was a little supervision.  I'm really surprised the school won't do it.  Our nurse does these all the time.  But perhaps if he does it himself they would be willing to keep his test kit in the nurse's office and allow him to do do it himself with her supervision.  This is really a life-skill that he needs to learn anyway.

Answer 2

At seven years old he really is ready to do the test himself and it will give him a feeling of control.  Start doing it with him at home and each time let him do a little more.  Talk to his teacher once he starts school and ask her to remind him to do it and to make sure he has time to do it.  My friend's daughter has had diabetes since she was two and started testing herself at 5 and doing her own injections not long after.

Answer 3

Diabetes is of primarily two types - Diabetes mellitus (Type-I and Type II) and Diabetes insipidus.

What is type-1 diabetes?

Type-1 diabetes is sometimes called juvenile diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes. It means that your body can't make insulin. Insulin helps your body turn the sugar from the food you eat into a source of energy. Type 1 occurs more frequently in children and young adults, but accounts for only 5-10% of the total diabetes cases nationwide.

What is type-2 diabetes?

Type-2 diabetes results when insulin production is defective and tissue resistance to insulin develops. For many persons with Type-2 diabetes, daily insulin supplementation is not required. Diabetes is managed by making moderate changes in diet and exercise. Of the nearly 16 million Americans with diabetes, 90-95% (14.9 million) have Type-2 diabetes. Of these, roughly a third are unaware they have the disease.

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease involving abnormalities in the body's ability to use sugar. Diabetes is characterized by:

Elevated blood sugars for months to years.

Both hereditary and environmental factors leading to its development and progression.

A relative or absolute deficiency of effective circulating insulin. Insulin is a substance made by the pancreas which lowers blood sugar in conjunction with meals. Diabetes is characterized by either: (1) an inability of the pancreas to produce insulin (type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) or an inability of insulin to exert its normal physiological actions (type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes).

Often recognized in patients and their families by excessive urination, thirst, weight loss and/or a lack of energy. But diabetes is often silent and may exist for many years without the individual's noticing it.

Effects certain "target tissues," that is, tissues which are vulnerable to the damaging effects of chronically high blood sugar levels. These target tissues are the eye, the kidney, the nerves and the large blood vessels, such as in the heart.



What is Diabetes insipidus?

A form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys); characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst.

Diabetes - Treatment & Homeopathic Medicines

#Uranium nitrate. [Uran]

This remedy is praised highly by Hughes and others in diabetes originating in dyspepsia. It has polyuria, polydypsia, dryness of the mouth and skin. It causes sugar in the urine. Dr. Laning said that no remedy gives such universally good results; it lessens the sugar and quantity of the urine; he recommended the 3X trituration. It is when the disease is due to assimilative derangements that Uranium is the remedy, and symptoms such as defective digestion, languor, debility and much sugar in the urine, enormous appetite and thirst, yet the patient continues to emaciate. Syzygium jambolanum is a remedy capable of diminishing the amount of sugar in the urine, especially when used in the tincture and lower triturations, and some cases have been reported cured, but it cannot be considered a reliable drug , and its use seems entirely palliative.

#Phosphoric acid [Phos]

corresponds to diabetes of nervous origin; the urine is increased, perhaps milky in color and containing much sugar. It suits cases due to grief, worriment and anxiety, those who are indifferent and apathetic, poor in mental and physical force. It is unquestionably curative of diabetes mellitus in the early stages, great debility and bruised feeling in the muscles. There will be loss of appetite, sometimes unquenchable thirst and perhaps the patient will be troubled with boils. When patients pass large quantities of pale colorless urine or where there is much phosphatic deposit in the urine it is the remedy. It thus may be a remedy in the form known as diabetes insipidus. Hering considered Plumbum one of the most important remedies in diabetes mellitus. Causticum, Scilla and Strophanthus may be of use in diabetes insipidus. Lycopodium cured a case in a weary, wretched patient; emaciated, increased appetite and great thirst; pale, profuse urine. Eight quarts in 24 hours.

#Phosphorus. [Phos]

Useful in diabetes and pancreatic diseases, especially in those of a tuberculous or gouty diathesis. The pancreatic involvement will call attention to Phosphorus. Natrum sulphuricum corresponds to the hydrogenoid constitution, with dry mouth and throat,and Arsenicum should be studied in diabetic gangrene, thirst and emaciation. Sudden and extreme dryness of the mouth and marked physical restlessness are also guiding symptoms to this remedy, especially with a dark watery stool. Dr. P.Jousset reports positive success where the mouth is dry; frequent, abundant urination and tendency to skin eruption.

#Lactic acid. [Lact]

An exceedingly good remedy in the gastrohepatic variety of diabetes and good results often follow its use. It has a fine clinical record. The symptoms are: urinates copiously and freely, urine light yellow and saccharine, thirst, nausea, debility, voracious appetite and costive bowels. Dry skin, dry tongue, gastralgia. Acetic acid is also a valuable diabetic remedy, and it has passing of large quantities of pale urine, intense thirst, hot, dry skin and marked debility Carbolic acid may also be found useful.

#Bryonia. [Bry]

Should not be neglected in this disease. No remedy has dryness of the lips as a symptom of hepatic disorder more marked than Bryonia, and this is often one of the first symptom of diabetes. There is a persistent bitter taste, the patient is languid, morose and dispirited, thirst may not be extreme nor the appetite voracious, the patient may lose strength through inability to eat. Podophyllum has a bitter taste, but the tongue is flabby. It may be of use in the disease. Chionanthus is a remedy used by the Eclectic School upon the indications of thirst, frequent and copious urine; constipation with stools light colored, devoid of bile. Functional liver disorders. Argentum metallicum. Hahnemann suggests the use of this remedy in diuresis, it is decided use in diabetes insipidus. The urine is profuse, turbid and of sweet odor. Micturition is frequent and copious. Natrum sulphuricum. Hinsdale reports good results with this remedy. It has polyuria, intense itching of the skin, especially upon the upper surface of the thighs. It is the Tissue Remedy of diabetes.

#Insulin. [Insulin]

Long before the discovery of Insulin Dr.Pierre Jousset of Paris prepared a pancreatic juice on a glycerine basis which he administered to diabetic patients in doses of 10 or 20 drops a day in water and had results sufficiently good to consider pancreatic juice, orally administered, as a remedy of great value in diabetes. Dr. Cartier, his practical successor, praised it insisted on smaller doses given by mouth as larger doses and hypodermic injections of it had no effect in ordinary diabetes. Baker advises the homoeopathic strengths of Insulin 3d to 30th and reports happy results therefrom. Great care must be taken not to overdose. Boericke says that it maintains the blood sugar at a normal level and the urine remains free of sugar. Epileptic convulsions and mental derangements have been produced by hypodermic use of this hormone.

I hope this helps in finding the right medicine for your child. Feel free to email me if you need any help about Homeopathy.

Take care and God Bless you and your loved ones.

Answer 4

I'm going to assume that, like many schools, his school does not have a nurse. Who have you talked to? Principal? His new teacher? the school secretary? I'll assume you've talked to all of them. If not, ask to have a meeting before school starts to discuss the blood sugar test.

They probably don't want to take on the responsibility (what if they misread the test? cause an infection? do it wrong? probably all kinds of scenarios running through their minds). I don't see how it would be any different than giving prescription medication. Maybe if you have a letter from the doctor and tell them you will train your child and school personnel in how to administer the test?

It's possible there's something in your school or school district policies that forbids it, but I don't know.

Have you ever gone to www.todaysparent.com? Try asking in the parenting forums there. I know there are parents there who have children with diabetes and are also from Ontario or at least from Canada. They might've run into the same situation. I'd try posting in general ed. and families with special needs, maybe even kids health and safety. Introduce yourself in community chat and ask people to check out your post in the appropriate forum. Good luck!