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Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
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Main description:

The number of children with Type 1 diabetes is steadily increasing. While research continues to search for a cure, the expectation is that those afflicted should enjoy a long life. Medical research has conclusively proved that looking after your own diabetes - and keeping your blood glucose level down - is the key to avoiding the pitfalls and long-term risks.

Having diabetes means you need to make yourself better informed than the average doctor, and this remarkable book gives you all the strategies and tricks to get your blood glucose down and keep it under control. In this practical, easy-to-read book Dr Ragnar Hanas shows you step-by-step how to become an expert in your own diabetes.

By understanding your Type 1 diabetes and how to manage it, you can live a full, healthy and happy life.

Up-to-date with changes to the HbA1c standard which measures average blood glucose levels.

All the latest information on insulin therapies

Includes 39 chapters, and over 400 illustrations and cartoons

Glossary explains 172 medical terms

Stories of other people with diabetes

Summary of contents:

Topics covered range from `how your body works' to `sweets, treats and ice-cream' and from `insulin injection technique' to `long-term complications' and any number of subjects in-between:

Getting to grips with and caring for your own diabetes

Background on diabetes and your body

Blood glucose and hypoglycaemia

Insulin treatment and monitoring your diabetes

Nutrition, weight control and exercise

Smoking, alcohol, pregnancy and social issues

Travel tips

Complications

Research and new developments

Psychology and needle-phobia

Well-known people with diabetes


Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Getting to grips with diabetes

3. Caring for your own diabetes

4. Diabetes: some background

5. How your body works

6. High blood glucose levels

7. Regulation of blood glucose

8. Hypoglycaemia

9. Treating hypogylcaemia

10. Insulin treatment

11. Monitoring

12. The HbA1c test

13. Injection technique

14. Injection equipment

15. Adjusting insulin doses

16. Insulin pumps

17. Side effects of insulin treatment

18. Insulin requirements

19. Nutrition

20. Sweeteners

21. Sweets, treats and ice cream

22. Weight control

23. Eating disorders

24. Physical exercise

25. Stress

26. Fever and sick days

27. Smoking

28. Alcohol

29. Illegal drugs

30. Pregnancy and sexual issues

31. Social issues

32. Travel tips

33. Associated diseases

34. Complications in blood vessels

35. Lowering the risk of complications

36. Research and new developments

37. Psychology

38. Needle phobia

39. Well-known people with diabetes


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781859593370
Publisher: Class Health
Publication date: May, 2011
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 188.00 x 246.00 x 22.00
Weight: 840g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Endocrinology, Paediatrics and Neonatal

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