Love Diabetes: Back to School Diabetes and Bullies
BackSo here's my beef for the month of September. Now that school's back in session, I've been contacted by many parents concerned for their child's s diabetes while at school. When I was in grade school I had to go to the nurse's office if I felt low. No questions asked. No testing. She gave me a cup of juice. I sat for 15 and then went back to class. Nowadays, the parents I've heard from say that their school district insist their kid go to the nurses office to check their glucose. Here's the problem. Hypoglycemia is not a number. It is a sequence of events that collaboratively shut-down cognitive functions as the glucose levels drop. Since I'm obsessed with everything diabetes -- I wondered how I could explain the seriousness of a low blood sugar to the world. I'll start with the physiology of the brain. Then I'll explain how there are relative glucose levels -- and how your mileage may vary. Check http://www.alliesvoice.com for the comments on the blog and to SUB SCRIBE to future blogs.
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Uploaded: September 7th, 2008 @ 2:50 am
Author: AllieBeatty
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