Haloween?

[kdarrell]

If your child has diabetes, how do you deal with the haloween dilemia?

[rattitude]

Halloween is the one holdiay that is a real **** for avoiding candy as there are no obvious subsitutes. Basiclly I insitited a deal where all the candy my nice (diabetic) got went to my nephew and I traded it for diabetic equivalents. Luckily see is a real hoarder and kept the candy for treates for months rather than eating it all at once. A vert few houses will have other kinds fo treats available or you could arrange a neighborhood door to door and ask them to have alternatives.

[destiny]

I think it would be neat to throw a Halloween party with "safe" treats for the child and their friends. If it's a great enough party, they won't miss trick-or-treating.

[parise]

yeah I agree with that do something fun that will take their minds off halloween. I don't think that they will even worry about candy for real.

[EasyWriter]

that they are part of the group, and can participate with their classmates.
Door-to-door Trick-Or-Treating is becoming a thing of the past.Safety considerations are causing community groups to organize parties for Halloween where the children can be closely supervised.
Constant monitoring of what the child eats is important, after all they are kids and are easily tempted; but it is a day for fun and scary role playing.

[ladygirl99]

What I would do if I had a child with diabetes is that I would make then fun fruit sugarless snacks and also that I would buy them scarey movies to keep them mind off of candy.

[EasyWriter]

Being that some kids are Hungry All The Time! how much fruit should you allow them to eat? Fruit is digested very rapidly (it is 95% water), can kids eat too much fruit?

[ladygirl99]

But I am just talking about Halloween here. I think that having some fruit snacks and low fat popcorn also helps.

[stish]

I know there are many sugerfree candies available out there, like Jollyranchers and others, we make them available at Halloween, we just never know if a child would admit to needing sugar free and take it, but it helps to have the choice, we just started doing this after a friend of ours discovered her kid was diabetic.

[parise]

There are many things out there you could do with fruit if you just put your creative mind to it. You just have to take your time.

[destiny]

I know there are many sugerfree candies available out there, like Jollyranchers and others, we make them available at Halloween, we just never know if a child would admit to needing sugar free and take it, but it helps to have the choice, we just started doing this after a friend of ours discovered her kid was diabetic.

I think that if a parent wants to not make a big deal of it and just plans something safe for their child like a party with sugarfree candy, etc. it would be great. Making a big production of it would probably tend to make the child realize even more than usual that they can't eat what other kids eat.

[jimmys devoted]

While its appreciated that suga free is given, and i applud you for that consideration, if you look at the back of teh bag of both traditinor regular jolly ranchers and sugar free youll see there realy is no difference in carbohydrates.

What I prefer to give to anyone, and that includes those who may have hidden peanut allergies, milk allergies, dye allergies, diabetes, Chrons disease and so on.. is to avoid candy, fruit and foods altogether.

I like to give pencils, erasers, tattoos, rubber band bracelets, sip cups with halloween designs, rubber duckies. or look at what is available. Its something that lastsa long after the candy is gone. I used ot love to even get pennies.. becaus ethen it could besaved for later!

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[gamergates]

I'm a diabetic and I have a nephew who is diabetic. My husband I started giving out non food items for halloween. Temporary Tattoos, stickers, plastic planes etc. If you watch the stores you can get these items for almost as cheap as you can get candy, but usually it's best to look for them early in the year.

Also check party favors and such. I think if I was active in a youth group that was full of diabetics I would probably host a diabetic friendly Halloween party instead. Where I could serve made rather than purchased treats and play games and such.

[jimmys devoted]

Ilove getting stuff like that as well. i dont know why with all the warnings for food there arent more parents giving out more of the fun stuff

[rumen]

I think that if a parent wants to not make a big deal of it and just plans something safe for their child like a party with sugarfree candy, etc. it would be great. Making a big production of it would probably tend to make the child realize even more than usual that they can't eat what other kids eat.

I absolutely agree with you. Sugarfree candies are the best option.

[faithib]

If my child had diabetes(I am the type 1 in my family) I would let them have some as a treat on halloween and then save most of it for low bloodsugars, they get to pick what they want out of the sack to eat. That could actually be a fun thing. I'd trade off the chocolate since it doesn't work for lows and give them something else, either stuff they can eat anytime for that or toys or something.

[manojjonam10]

For Halloween we can have candies which are sugar free or which has sugar sweetener.It will be nice if we decide which kind of candies they are going to eat.

[KrisNY]

I like the idea of having a Halloween party and inviting kids to it as well. Serve only things that they can eat.

You can also have your family get the treats that your child can have and take your children to those homes.

[Florentin]

oh my goodness, what a great question
I really enjoyed reading the answers

another reason this forum is so great!

this post is pretty important for all children, not just diabetic ones.