Forgive me if any offence is taken. Sometimes more data is not better and only leads to increased anxiety and over reactions.
None of that comment is true except in the most general sense. You think you are giving advice, but the OP and other parents of Type-1 children have vastly more knowledge about diabetes, "childhood sleep and nutrition" and what it all means for their lives. Twice nightly blood sugar tests are unavoidable in many patients. No, you don't have to wake up the child necessarily. It's a simple finger prick at worst, so they might not even wake up or go right back to sleep. With modern sensors (which are less reliable) you only need to swipe the reader over the sensor.
My Grandad has type 1 diabetes he treats it with a strict routine of eating at the same time every day and injecting at the same time, and testing only if he feels low.
The article I read was a parent in panic, and my only advice could possibly be to try and chill out, which is almost impossible as its your son and you would want to do as much as you can. Which is why I felt empathy to the poster, I could feel his anxiety.
To me it didn't read as panic. Telling someone to chill out is almost never a good idea.
If he has bread and no insulin he will go dangerously high and if left untreated he will need to go to hospital. If he has the insulin and doesn’t eat the bread he will go low have seizures then maybe death.
I am trying to understand what you are saying. Are you saying I should just give him a sandwich.
So even if you don't come to the stage of say, death, the shuttering-in-a-cold-sweat-and-anxiety stage is way, way worse than being pricked in the finger in your sleep.
My overall point to the GP is that the sleep disruption of finger sticks is less bad then the sleep disruption that happens when you go too high OR too low.