Is It OK to Dose Insulin After a Meal for Kids? | ISPAD Guidelines, T1D
Here's the permission slip every T1D parent needs: with a young child, dosing during or after the meal is not cheating. It's not failing at pre-bolusing. It is, in plain black and white in the interna...
21 Aug 5min
Pre-Bolusing for a Picky Toddler with Type 1 Diabetes | Combo Bolus
Your toddler asked for the macaroni, then looked at it like you served packing peanuts and demanded the one other food in the house, and you've got insulin on board for a meal that just got canceled. ...
19 Aug 6min
Pre-Bolusing & Why Your Tech Can't Save You Alone // Natalie, Bellini, DNP
She stopped counting years with type 1 a long time ago. Natalie Bellini counts days... more than 20,000 of them. This week Neil finally gets his dream guest: Natalie Bellini, DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, CDCE...
17 Aug 54min
Pre-Bolusing and Still Spiking? Check Your Carb Count | Type 1 Diabetes
You pre-bolus. You give it the 15 minutes. You watch the arrow. And you're still spiking. Don't throw out the challenge, that spike is a clue. Neil puts on the detective hat, because timing is huge, b...
14 Aug 6min
Fiasp, Lyumjev & Afrezza: Do You Still Need to Pre-Bolus? | T1D
"Neil, I use Fiasp, or Lyumjev, or Afrezza, do I even have to wait?" Great question, and this episode gets genuinely nerdy about the answer. Fiasp and Lyumjev are ultra-rapid analogs, built with ingre...
12 Aug 7min
Do You Still Pre-Bolus on a Closed-Loop Pump? | Control-IQ, Omnipod 5
If you're on a closed-loop system, Control-IQ, Omnipod 5, or Loop, you've probably wondered whether the algorithm means you're off the hook for pre-bolusing. Neil has to be the one to tell you: you st...
10 Aug 5min
Missed and Late Insulin Boluses: What to Do | Type 1 Diabetes
Some nights you do everything right and it still goes sideways. The dinner party, the cookout with the moving-target food, the night you're so fried you only remember to bolus while scraping the plate...
7 Aug 6min
Why Pizza Spikes Your Blood Sugar at Midnight | Fat, Protein & T1D
Some meals spike you and move on. Pizza spikes you, waves goodbye, and comes back four hours later like a horror-movie villain. If you've ever been 110 at bedtime and 260 at midnight, this episode exp...
5 Aug 6min
