"For anyone with kids, you just want your kids to enjoy their childhood, be enriched through school or extracurricular activities and be safe while they do those things," she said. "Our kids are not safe right now."
"It's a scary condition, but with the technology that we have, it's totally doable," she said. "The kids can thrive, but you can't do stuff like not help them with their insulin."
Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes are urging a provincewide standard of care in schools to prevent variable responses across classrooms and boards. A diabetic preteen experienced dangerously low blood sugar on a tree-planting field trip when no snacks or trained staff were available, prompting a remote-monitoring parent to coordinate a bus trip to a gas station. Most children use insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors that allow remote tracking, but young students and those with cognitive disabilities still require adult help with carb counting and insulin dosing. Incorrect inputs or lack of timely treatment can be life threatening, so consistent trained support is necessary.
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