Coping Strategies To Deal With Type 1 Diabetes In Your Child
Nothing can throw you into a tailspin as fast as finding out that your child has a chronic disease like Type 1 diabetes. As a parent, you may go through the whole gamut of emotions from angry to fearful to confused to depressed.
You find yourself full of questions about the future life of your child. How do I tell my child that he/she has this disease? What do I tell the school, friends, or family? Can my child still have a normal life? Keep in mind that all of these questions are normal and it is up to you to learn how to cope.
After the diagnosis, you find that you are thrust into a world of injections, testing blood sugars, and changing eating patterns. How do you deal with all of this? Being overwhelmed with questions is normal and it is a good idea for you to connect with other parents who have been where you are.
There are many support groups for parents and children that you can join to help you find answers. By sharing your own experiences and learning from others, you will find that some of your anxiety will start to dissipate.
A great part of joining a support group or organization is that you can learn more about dealing with diabetes by encouraging others, learn ways to deal with the diabetes of your child, and you can trade sugar-free recipes. If you cannot find a support group in your town, then look on the Internet for an online support group.
A diabetes diagnosis requires increased attention to your family health care by you and your doctor. Learning all that is possible about diabetes will help you to take an active role in the care of your child. You will know what questions to ask and will understand better what the doctor tells you. Your physician and your family needs to work together to control this disease.
It is important to talk to the teachers and administrators so that you will be aware of any special issues that your child may encounter at school. It will fall on them to watch what your child eats and to monitor what snacks are brought in.
The shock of a diabetes diagnosis will take a while to completely understand. It will be a time full of different emotions and it is the time that your family needs to come together for the best interest of your child.
It is possible for your child to live a more normal life with diabetes. There are many sugar substitutes, sugar-free recipes, and sugar-free candy varieties that will give your child the sweets that they want, but keep them healthy. Eating meals that are healthy and well balanced will help keep the blood sugar levels of your child under control. Adding exercise to the mix will help both your child and your family, especially if you make it fun.
You child may need to use manufactured insulin to keep their blood glucose levels under control. This works differently for each person and your physician may have to do some experimenting to find the right combination and dosage of insulin for your child. You will probably have to give the injections, so it is important that you learn as much as possible about insulin and its purposes and injection methods.
You may want to purchase a good diabetes dictionary because it will help you with the medical talk that is common with a diabetes diagnosis. Learning more about the diabetes related terms will help you to become more knowledgeable so that you can take care of your child.
You can find many useful websites that are full of information about diabetes and coping with the disease, whether you are a child, parent, or teenager. Connecting with others who are going through diabetes will help take some of the stigma out of the diagnosis and you will be able to learn more about it. Learning is the key to coping with diabetes.
Khim Lim
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DiabetesCare.net Launches Free Health Assessment Tool
DiabetesCare.net Launches Free Health Assessment Tool
Mount Laurel, NJ (Vocus) November 29, 2010
DiabetesCare.net – the fastest growing, advertising-free diabetes resource on the internet – announced today the launch of the latest tool in its expanding health tool library: an overall Health Assessment Tool.
Users of DiabetesCare.net’s new Health Assessment Tool will answer simple questions about their weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, tobacco and alcohol use, daily nutrition, family health, injury history, fitness habits, and their overall well-being, and in-turn be presented with a “Personal Wellness Score” that will offer ways they can improve their health, including goals they have set. The report also includes a “Doctor’s Chart Report” that can be saved in PDF form for easy printing and/or emailing to the user’s healthcare professional.
DiabetesCare.net Managing Editor Mike Boyle commented, “Our new Health Assessment Tool represents a further commitment on our part to provide the diabetes community another tool to help them manage their disease and offer solutions to better their lifestyle.”
Boyle added, “With the debut of our new Health Assessment Tool, DiabetesCare.net’s home page also gets a make-over with our new diabetes “Tip of the Day” and “Definition of the Day” features, plus an interactive weekly poll visitors can participate in.”
DiabetesCare.net’s free-to-use library of tools also includes a Nutrition Tracker, with over 40,000 food items for tracking daily food intake and carbohydrates consumed; an Exercise Tracker that tracks over 80 different daily exercise activities for visitors; a Blood Glucose Tracker; a BMI (Body Mass Index) Calculator; and an A1C Conversion Tool.
DiabetesCare.net, which launched earlier this year, on Feb. 1, also features recipes for its visitors — a key component for them as they look for ways to manage their diabetes — plus helpful short- and long-form videos with tips for people living with diabetes and much more.
Lastly, DiabetesCare.net, complete with a medical panel that regularly reviews the material on the website and suggests improvements to its tools, is free to all users and contains no commercial advertising whatsoever, which means no bias, just useful information and support.
For more information about DiabetesCare.net, visit the website now at http://www.DiabetesCare.net, or contact Managing Editor/Webmaster Mike Boyle at mike(at)DiabetesCare(dot)net or 866-503-6637.
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Diabetes Doesn’t Have to Lead to Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes causes damage to the kidneys by causing harm to the small blood vessels that make the kidneys filters. If the filters get really damaged then chronic kidney disease develops. This is an incurable disease but it can be controlled. An early treatment of diabetes helps by reducing the damage the kidneys receive so that when dialysis is needed the kidneys won’t fail.
If identified at the right moment the physician will be able to give you a treatment that will stop the disease to damage further the body. Insulin dependent diabetes (Type 1) can be diagnosed very easy and early because of the very rapid symptoms, so that the kidneys won’t get damaged. If one has type 1 diabetes he`ll surely know it, but if he has type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes he may not find out about it for years because the first symptoms appear after at least 3 years. This means that the small blood vessels that make up the kidneys filters are already damaged by the high sugar level in the blood. This is when one of the first kidney disease symptom appear. It is called microalbuminuria and it is characterized by a really high volume of protein in the urine. That protein should have remained in the blood but because the damage sustained by the kidneys it reaches the urine.
After someone is diagnosed with diabetes of any type, he should do regular microalbumin checking. This will help a physician to see if there’s any damage on the kidneys. The doctor will give you a plan to keep. This isn’t a radical plan; type 1 diabetes ill people need to take their insulin while type 2 just needs to watch their diet and make allot of exercise.
If a patient has a high blood pressure and diabetes in the same time he has more chances to develop kidney disease (also know as nephropathy). In this case he will be prescribed ACE inhibitors to get the blood pressure. Studies have show that ACE inhibitors are a good treatment against kidney disease even if the patient has a regular blood pressure.
If someone is diagnosed with diabetes it his crucial he has a healthy life. Alcohol and cigarettes will only get in the treatments way. Psychical exercise should be made as often as possible.
Not in all cases a patient diagnosed with diabetes will develop chronic cancer disease. If you live a healthy life and you follow your doctors advice you can reduce and even avoid kidney damage.
So, if you want to find out more about diabetes or even about diabetes treatment please follow this link http://diabetes-info-center.com/
Groshan Fabiola
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/diabetes-doesnt-have-to-lead-to-chronic-kidney-disease-87694.html
