Allergies to adhesives suck

Our woes with rashes to adhesives started about 3 months after Ella started on the Omnipod.

 

It started with a small little rash once I removed the Omnipod.

It quickly progressed to a red, inflamed, itchy rash that would develop within 24 hours of a new Omnipod.

So, we quit the Omnipod because I wasn't about to do Omnipod changes on a daily basis and Ella's skin had taken a serious beating.

 

We've been plugging along with Animas ping for a few months now.

We do site changes every 2 days and full (insulin & site) every 4 days. 

That seemed to work swell.

Every once in a while she'd have a rash after 2 days but it cleared up quick with a low-dose corticosteroid.

 

But now that it's summer and she's swimming every day, I noticed she develops a rash to the site very quickly.

So we're having to do DAILY site changes.

 

So imagine how thrilled I was when, after having done a site change at 7am on Monday, Ella tells me a mere 12 hours later that the site is itchy and she needs to pull it.

 

I think I pouted like a 3 year old and said, "FINE - PULL IT!"

And slammed a new site on her tooshie.

 

But when I pulled the little plastic inserter gizmo thingy off, I noticed the fat part of the site, where the little insulin connector thingy plugs in, hadn't stuck all the way down and I could see underneath the site where the cannula was in about 3/4 of the way.

 

So I did what any responsible Type 1 parent would do: I pushed it down and then I texted my T1D Mommas to see if they thought it would work. The consensus was it could go either way and they all wished me luck.

 

I know you're dying to know the results, so here's the play-by-play:

 

7 pm: Insert new site. BG 96. Looking good.

9 pm: BG 160. Hmmm....could be the pasta she ate for dinner. Small correction.

11 pm: BG 170. Not bad. Still could go either way. Small correction.

1 am: BG 230. 0.3 blood ketones. Crap.

 

I pulled the site.

Cannula was completely bent over.

 

 

Freaking Skin Allergies.