A Guide for Families: Diabetes Care for Children and Teens ...

A Guide for Families:

Diabetes Care for Children and Teens with Type 1 Diabetes

A Guide for Families: Diabetes Care for Children and Teens

with Type 1 Diabetes

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Table of Contents

1. What is Diabetes

} How the body uses sugar for energy } What is type 1 diabetes?

2. Checking Blood Sugar

} Checking blood sugar

3. Low Blood Sugar

} Low blood sugar } Glucagon for severe low blood sugar

4. Insulin

} Insulin Action times } How do I give insulin? } Where can I give insulin? } Taking care with insulin and sharps } Mixing insulin from vials } Mixing insulin from insulin pen cartridges

5. Food

} Food choices for children and teens with type 1 diabetes } Speed of sugar: Fast facts about food } Graph: How quickly do foods and drinks raise blood sugar?

6. Activity

} Physical activity and type 1 diabetes

7. High Blood Sugar and Ketones

} What should I do if the blood sugar is high? } What are ketones } What are the warning signs of DKA? } What causes DKA and how can it be prevented?

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February 2017



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