Your child can live a normal life – yes, normal – as long as you, your family, and others learn to help manage his or her blood sugar (glucose) levels. Your household will just have a different definition of “normal.”  When blood sugar levels are well controlled, your son or daughter can do anything anyone else does. Kids with diabetes ride bikes, play sports, swim, dance, date, grow up, get married, have children, grow old, have grandchildren – just like everyone else.

You will learn to balance healthful eating, exercise, monitoring blood glucose levels, and adjust insulin as you go with the help of your doctor and diabetes educator.  A bonus is that you may also improve the whole family’s health with the lifestyle changes you will make in your household because of your child's diabetes.

Tips for Injection Comfort

BD's 5mm pen needle requires no pinch-up, and excels in studies.  In home use studies, children compared a 5 mm pen needle used with no pinch-up to an 8 mm pen needle use with pinch-up. Children rated the pain of the injection as significantly lower with the 5 mm pen needle.  Learn more

For the greatest injection comfort, accept only BD Ultra-Fine™ syringes.  In a home usage study conducted by BD, 8 out of 10 insulin users agreed that the BD Ultra-Fine™ Insulin Syringes are the most comfortable syringes they ever used.   Learn  more

Tips for Testing Comfort

BD Ultra-Fine™ 33 Gauge Lancets are the thinnest lancets available, which means that your child can experience less pain when taking a blood sample.