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Easter tips!
Easter is a special time of year to spend with family and friends, and enjoy food together. But it can be a tricky time with lots of sugary treats around.
We asked Dietitian Megan Moffet from the PCH Diabetes team for her top tips to strike a healthy balance between enjoying Easter treats and maintaining your healthy meal routine.
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As you may know, the PCH Diabetes Clinical team successfully rolled out a collection of Person Reported Outcomes or PROs in 2023, followed by establishment of an annual collection cycle in 2024. This year it will look a little different.
Flu Season is coming
It's that time of year again... time to get your child's free flu vaccination. The 2025 Paediatric Influenza Vaccine Program will start at PCH in May. The program is available to inpatients and children attending outpatient appointments.
Setting smartphone rules
It is important that your child/teenager and you are on the same page with smart phone use and rules. We know mobile phones are an important part of navigating type 1 diabetes, so we asked the PCH Diabetes Social Work team for their tips to set some family device rules for school and home.
Launching TRACE-T1D
We are excited to launch this first-of-its-kind Australian study, monitoring glucose levels with a CGM device in Australian children and adolescents who have tested positive to having one or more type 1 diabetes related antibodies but do not need treatment with insulin.
We need your help
At what level do you treat hypos? We would like to find out whether your hypo treatment level can be revised and individualised to manage your diabetes safely. Diabetes researchers at PCH are looking for participants aged 6-25 years to join their 'Redefining Hypo Thresholds for Hypo Treatment' study.
Equittable access from diagnosis
Did you see the gorgeous Quinn Crouch and Dr Kate Lomax in the recent West Australian, Telethon liftout? Quinn received access to the best technology - a hybrid closed loop system - as part of the 'Equittable Access from Diagnosis' research project currently being offered to all WA children newly diagnosed with T1D.
Geraldton Fundraising Warriors
What a community we have! Congratulations to Hugh, Lilli and Mason for hosting Geraldton's successful JDRF One Walk last month. The fun-filled event which included a bouncy-castle and sausage sizzle, saw about 100 family, friends and supporters come together and raise almost $14,000 for JDRF Australia - now Breakthrough T1D Australia. We are extremely proud of all the passionate kids and families in our T1D Community.
