Diabetes Through The Looking Glass

The author combines her own experience growing up with diabetes and interviews with children and adults to provide an insight into what it feels like to grow up with diabetes. It covers the different phases of diagnosis and acceptance, hypos, blood tests and injections, school and teenage years, life beyond home.

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Diabetes: A Comprehensive Treatise for Patients and Care Givers is written with the intention of keeping readers abreast of the latest advancements, understanding, emerging trends, and technology in the field of diabetes. Several tables help to facilitate understanding of the concepts presented. Gestational diabetes, a topic commonly ignored, is also discussed in detail in a separate chapter. This book reviews recent findings of the most popular herbal medicines to treat diabetes through their relevant mechanism of actions. The book is unique in the sense that it is written for both care providers and patients. Chapter 18, Food and Diabetes; the Epilogue; and Appendices 1-4 are the sections especially designed and written for patients and care givers. An overview of above subjects will provide readers with a solid background to understand the exciting future developments in this rapidly moving science.

Louise is alarmed when Fred keeps falling asleep. His GP diagnoses type 2 diabetes. He is shown how to change his diet and take regular exercise, and we see him cooking and eating a healthy meal. His GP prescribes medication when Fred feels tired again. He feels much better at his annual review when he gives a urine sample, has his blood pressure taken and his feet checked.

Diabetes in children: a treatment and training program Diagnosis diabetes! You just heard about it. But what does that mean for you and for your parents? Ian (10 years old) has diabetes since a few years. He is talking about his everyday life, his favorite sports, his friends, and his experiences with the disease. In five chapters Ian explains: • What is diabetes actually? • Food and drinks for children with diabetes • How to treat myself well with insulin? • What do I need to do to keep my blood glucose from going too high or too low? • How do I notice that my blood glucose is too high or too low? Ian is telling you, what is important to know about diabetes and to have a good life like any other child: go to school, having parties, sports, and do everything, what else you love to do. He also has many practical tips for you, and you can train with him, how to get along well with diabetes. In the sixth chapter Ian introduces his twelve-year old friend Laura. Together with her parents she is just learning how she can calculate her insulin dose by herself. Each chapter ends with a small knowledge check – so you can see how much you've learned about diabetes. An extra brochure for your parents includes suggestions and assistance for a relaxed family life with diabetes.