Supplies at school

MichS · #1 01-07-2009, 08:39 AM

Hi all,
DS gets a noon injection at school of rapid. So far I have been sending his bag to school loaded up with everything he needs. There is no insulin or anything left at school (other than apple juice and snacks). Do you leave an extra vial of insulin at school - probably refrigerated? He uses the pen at school, should I leave an extra pen with needles at school? We also only use one meter, tote it to school and back. I wasn't comfortable with the variablity in our 2 meters.
Anyway, just looking for what you do.
Thanks!
Michelle

Christopher · #2 01-07-2009, 08:45 AM

I send Danielle to school with her meter kit that we use at home (although the school has a back up). There is also a small booklet that travels back and forth that the nurse and I use to record her insulin usage, carbs eaten and bg levels. At the school in the health office there is a small box in a cabinet that has all of the things the nurse needs to treat her, syringes, alcohol pads, insulin, glucose tabs, glucagon shot, etc. There is also a fridge where an extra vial of insulin is kept, along with various snacks that she may use to bring up a low. The nurse calls me several times a day to let me know how Danielle is doing, what her bg numbers are and also if she has any questions regarding her care. I feel pretty lucky to have this arrangement. Anyway, hope that helps you....

MichS · #3 01-07-2009, 08:52 AM

Wow! That sounds ideal. The part about the nurse calling several times a day! Anyway, thanks for the tips. We don't have a school nurse. But the staff is very cooperative and on board with everything.

*Shannon · #4 01-07-2009, 08:54 AM

Janie's kit goes back and forth between school and home. It's her everyday, carries with her all the time kit. The school does have a backup meter, though. I highly recommend this. Her meter has been left at home one or twice, it gets taken out of the kit more and sometimes doesn't make it back in. So, extra meter and a vile of strips for back up at school, everything thing else goes back and forth. I probably should arrange for a backup pen to be kept in the fridge. I think I'll do that.

Mistync991 · #5 01-07-2009, 09:03 AM

we dont make taylor travel with hers she has a bag that stays at school that has her meter, snackd, an extra site change (so i dont have to go home to get one, the school will not change this ..nor do i want them to) and some needles in case they need to give her a shot...they keep an extra vile of insulin in the fridge ...to us it just seems eaiser that way and i check the bag to make sure things arent running low and take that meter as well as her home meter with us when we go to the endo ...we also have it set up where she calls us if taylor is high or low or has any questions ...also her nurse is with her all day in the class room

Christopher · #6 01-07-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by MichS

Wow! That sounds ideal. The part about the nurse calling several times a day! Anyway, thanks for the tips. We don't have a school nurse. But the staff is very cooperative and on board with everything.

That sounds good too. I don't believe you have to have a school nurse, I mean look at all of us who don't have medical backgrounds who do this everyday, right? If all the staff is on board that is great.

Danielle goes to Middle school next year, new school, new staff, etc. So it all starts all over again.

NicksMother · #7 01-07-2009, 09:04 AM

We have a complete set of supplies at the school so there is no need to carry them back and forth. My son does carry some things with him but that is only because he needs them for after school activities. Our school nurse has a cabinet where each D student keeps their supplies. Extra insulin pens are in the fridge. The nurse sends a written copy of BS readings home every week and my DS records his carb counts and insulin dosages in a log and brings them home every week.

wdhinn89 · #8 01-07-2009, 09:05 AM

My son uses his Cozmoniter with his pump and a back up meter is left at school. We also have a full supply box at school with all pump supplies, testing supplies and emergency supplies as well as juice and skittles and an extra vial of humalog left in the school fridge.

jules12 · #9 01-07-2009, 09:19 AM

I think we have a ton of stuff at school -

He has his own drawer in the nurses office for this kit, snacks, glucose tabs, glucose gel, juice boxes, ketone strips, extra lancets, batteries, 1 pen vial unopened in frig, novo jr pen, glucagon and pump supplies.

In his backpack, he carries a one touch mini, extra strips, glucose tabs, and gel. I started this last year because I think he needs something for the bus ride just in case. This also provides an extra area for backup strips without meeting having to send extra strip vials to school - strips are the one thing we come close to running out of and I don't like to have extra's locked up at school where I cannot get to them.

This week he is beginning to test in the class room, so we put together a box with all the essentials too.

Nate'sMom · #10 01-07-2009, 10:59 AM

We keep everything Nate needs for the day at school (extra glucometer, strips, lancets, glucagon, extra vial of insulin, pump supplies, snacks, ketostrips, everything) It is so nice to have less things to worry about packing every day. He just carries his log book back and forth and supplies in his back pack for the long bus ride (to treat a low). I send a ton of stuff at the beginning of the year and I usually only have to restock his suplies about every grading period ( I refill snacks about once a month). We have a great school nurse who is monitoring 5 d kids and she has little cubby holes with our storage containers for each kid. Our nurse has really educated herself and the staff on type 1 diabetes care and I am so thankful we have her, but I believe (I may be wrong here) as part of the Children with disabilities act, it is required that someone in the school be trained to administer appropriate care to a diabetic child. (that may only be in certain states).