In order to make life easier when figuring out insulin dosages, I put together this spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org Calc, a free, open source office suite that is an extremely capable alternative to the proprietary Microsoft © Office suite. I'm making the spreadsheet publicly available for download in both formats, so users of both suites will be able to use them, however I highly encourage you to check out the OpenOffice.org suite.
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Download MS © Office version
Whenever we have a change in her dosages, I just plug in her new numbers, and print. The chart is very easy to use. just plug in your target blood sugar, sensitivity factor, and carbs per unit numbers, and the chart will calculate your carb dose, and corrective dose. It is based on the formula we use for Tori as follows:
corrective dosage units = (blood sugar - target blood sugar) / sensitivity
total dose = carb dose + corrective dose
Hope someone finds it useful...
Monday, November 21, 2005
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Hi..., I'm a fellow blogger (The [Only] Man of the House) that stumbled onto your site via RebelDad. My youngest daughter was actually diagnosed with hyperinsulinism at birth - the exact opposite of diabetes and far more rare - and we've been dealing with that and a host of other medical problems since. For this reason, and a few others, I decided to start doing some pro bono work for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation here in New Haven. I recently put togther a video of their annual Walk to Cure Diabetes for them to use to help get more sponsors for future walks. A friend of mine who did the narration, posted something about it on his blog. If you're interested, check it out here (the link to the actual video is at the end of this entry):
http://www.geofffox.com/MT/archives/2005/11/17/sometimes_you_just_get_lucky.php
If nothing else, I thought you would like to know I care about these children and the work this foundation is doing, and I'm trying to do whatever I can to help.
Take care.
Sincerely,
Chris Kirby
Hi Diabetes Dad your heading this post was quite thought provoking. I have been looking at sites to do with child diabetes being a parent myself a few times over and a member of various child support groups I often find myself needing a little help with childrens issues that can crop up from time to time. I recently found a site that is chockas with links on the subject of child diabetes It takes a little searching through the many directories that it has but some of the links are great and have helped me heaps, beats searching through the search engines. Anyway Luv your blog keep it up!
Nice Blog. I hope you'll continue to blog about Tori and your family.
My now 18 year old son was diagnosed with type 1 almost 17 years ago.
It's nice to read about other families raising children with diabetes. We're quite a community.
hi, my name is Eva my email address is eva157@yahoo.com
My 7 year old grandson is a diabetic, we found out when he was 13 months old. Its been a battle every since. I have lots of questions I would like to ask some, so if anyone has time and would like to email me about type 1, please do so.
I want to know how low does the blood sugar count go down for each unit of nph
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