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Would you please help me understand diabetes and how to deal with ups and downs?
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Gary Scheiner says
This is one of those "open-ended" questions that are so hard to answer. It would take an entire book to teach them the answer to this. But I would suggest that the consider what their target range is: If they are aiming for too tight a range, they are going to be frustrated. They need a fairly liberal range with a child, and accept that not all readings will be in that range. For example, I try to keep very young kids between 80 and 200 at least 70% of the time, at least pre-meal. If they are concerned about being over 120, they're going to go out of their minds.