Sons just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

piedi di formaggio – Member

I’m on a pump and there is a fasting element involved in getting the basal rate set properly, but that got nothing to do with what the nurse wants.

Yup- I meant that more for the OP since you’d said fasting was useless for anything but diagnosis, but they might well want him to do some to figure out dose balancing. Totally agree that it’s worth bugger all for you.

Whilst we are on this and whilst I seem to be off-message anyway..
Let me just post this as an “I told you so” to the future.

I very much doubt, that in most cases, Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition.
I think it far more likely that it’s a symptom of an industry-produced diet including a witch’s brew of Aluminium, Mercury, Dioxins, Aspartame, Alloxan (and other free radicals generators) which will one day prove to be to blame

Not going to debate this with any “Governments never lie to us” types (specially after this winters pointless Flu vaccine drive, millions ££s spent on TamiFlu placebos & Donkey Meat Burgers etc..) – Just putting it out there as something to think about to explain the explosion in numbers suffering from this condition.

I’ll get my coat

Edit – This is in no way aimed at OP or any other Type-1 diabetic(myself & family included), as if I am right, avoidance of these substances (as an individual) is virtually impossible.

So how does that tally with the belief that it was first recorded in ancient Egypt,etc?

This maybe of interest

http://www.abpi.org.uk/our-work/library/industry/Documents/diabetessnapshot.pdf

[anecdote]
Ms TPT came back from her check up earlier this week. Nurse said there has been a huge surge in the numbers of children diagnosed with Type 1 in Iraq and Syria. War/stress/hormones puzzle.
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This maybe of interest

I am, best not show the young un though, especially not the first page.