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Default Andy tests for diabetes this AM.

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:22:31 -0400, Stan Horwitz
> wrote:

>In article <wjTWi.358$lx.295@trndny05>,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> "Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> > I don't think the district where I know this happened ever prevented a
>> > kid from testing/injecting altogether, but requested it be done at the
>> > nurses office. This was an elementary school and I wonder if that had
>> > something to do with it. I have a vague memory that the insulin was
>> > kept in the nurse's office.

>>
>> My daughter has a diabetic in her class. She has to go to the nurse's
>> office for insulin. Not sure about the testing.

>
>Could it be that the insulin needs to be refrigerated? Maybe the nurse's
>office is where that student's insulin is kept.


Might be. Depends on the insulin. A friend was telling me about hers,
which is pre-loaded in an injector like an epi-pen, that he keeps out
at room temp. I do not know what kind it is. His doctor refers to her
as a T1.5.

Boron