Well as most of you may not know, children with type 1 diabetes CAN EAT CANDY! Normal, chocolate, sugar filled, yummy candy! How is this possible you ask? Well let me tell you!
Our first Halloween with type 1 diabetes was just 6 weeks after Shanie was diagnosed. So we were still very new at all of this. After her diagnoses we felt like we were dealing with a newborn baby again. We were very careful of everything! Also still being so ignorant about this disease that was trying to kill our daughter we did the only thing we knew how at that moment!
For Halloween we still let Shanie and her younger brother get candy. BUT we decided that we would buy her candy from her and she could go shopping and buy something instead of eating candy. She was fine with this except when she saw her brother being able to eat his candy. NOT FAIR RIGHT?? RIGHT! So we bought his too! LOL!
Of course we quickly learned that she can in fact eat candy just like anyone else! And SUGAR FREE ANYTHING IS NOT GOOD FOR HER! It causes tummy troubles. So NO SUGAR FREE CANDY!
:-) Well, like I said we quickly learned that she could eat just like a "normal" child. The only difference was that she had to put the insulin in to cover the CARBS, NOT SUGAR, but the carb amount from the candy. So instead of her body making insulin to cover her candy like the rest of us, she just has to make sure to put in the right amount of insulin. So now we let her get candy, LOTS of candy! LOL! And yes she does get to eat it all! Just not all at once! LOL! :-) She just has to keep track of the carbs she eats and put in the correct amount of insulin and she is good to go.
So make sure that you don't treat diabetic children any different during Halloween! :-)
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