DIABETIC Danielle Kent is on the road to recovery thanks to a new blood sugar monitoring system.

The twelve-year-old from Siverston Way, Malmesbury, became the first youngster in Wiltshire to go on to the new system.

Danielle met with doctors last week. They will use the results from the monitor to vary the way she is treated.

Danielle's mother, Michelle Payne said: "I think it has been a success. The doctors have said they are going to change the type of insulin she is using and the time of day it should be injected.

"She has been off school for a couple of days because of a leg infection which has caused her insulin levels to go sky high.

"We are hoping that the change in medication will stop this happening"

For two and a half days, Danielle had a glucose measuring device inserted into her stomach.

The instrument measures glucose levels every five minutes and saves the information on a microchip.

Doctors can download this information on to a computer and then print out a graph showing the fluctuation of sugar levels .

Miss Payne said: "We were very surprised by the results. It showed that during the night her blood sugar levels went down and down.

"They were so low, they reached levels that would make her dizzy or even unconscious if she was awake."

Doctors have now suggested that an insulin injection should be taken three times a day at every major meal.

It means that Danielle will have to have an injection while she is at school.

Miss Payne said: "We are having talks with Malmesbury School at the moment. It will be necessary for somebody to be there with Danielle when she injects herself."

Miss Payne said Danielle wants to go out and do things. "She wants to have a normal life, and she wants to do Tae Kwon Do."