Learn how to manage Type 1 diabetes for a healthier and happier life!
Whether you have been living with type 1 diabetes for some time, or you have just discovered that your child is diabetic, there’s a lot you need to know about the new developments in treating, controlling, and living with this disease. Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, explains everything you need to know and do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier and healthier.
This reassuring, plain-English guide helps you understand and mange the disease with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet an exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You’ll find out about the latest technologies of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and get a handle on everything you need to do to keep yourself or your child healthy, active, and feeling good. Discover how to:
* Overcome short-term complications
* Eat a diabetes-friendly diet
* Use exercise to help control type 1 diabetes
* Handle school, work, and other activities
* Help your child maintain a high quality of life
* Prevent long-term complications
* Be healthier than your friends who don’t have diabetes
* Deal with the emotional and psychological effects of the disease
* Choose an insulin pump for yourself or your child
* Calculate insulin dosages
Anyone can live a long, healthy, and productive life with type 1 diabetes. Small Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies delivers every drop of information you need to make sure that you or your child can do just that.
Spis treści
Introduction 1
Part I: Defining Type 1 Diabetes 9
Chapter 1: Dealing with Type 1 Diabetes 11
Chapter 2: Recognizing Type 1 Diabetes 19
Chapter 3: Excluding Other Types of Diabetes 31
Part II: Considering the Consequences of Type 1 Diabetes 43
Chapter 4: Overcoming Short-Term Complications 45
Chapter 5: Preventing Long-Term Complications 61
Chapter 6: Handling Emotional Effects 83
Part III: Treating Type 1 Diabetes 97
Chapter 7: Undergoing Essential Tests and Monitoring Blood Glucose 99
Chapter 8: Eating a Healthy Diet 127
Chapter 9: Exercising to Improve Control of Type 1 Diabetes 151
Chapter 10: Understanding the Basics of Using Insulin 171
Chapter 11: Delivering Insulin with a Pump 193
Chapter 12: Getting a Grip on Other Drugs and Treatments 207
Chapter 13: Surveying Kidney, Pancreas, and Pancreatic Islet Transplants 221
Part IV: Living with Type 1 Diabetes 237
Chapter 14: Adjusting to School, Work, and Other Activities 239
Chapter 15: Managing Illness and Travel 251
Chapter 16: Going through Pregnancy and Menopause 261
Chapter 17: Controlling Type 1 Diabetes in the Elderly 277
Part V: The Part of Tens 291
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Involve Kids in Their Own Diabetes Care 293
Chapter 19: Ten Commandments for Good Diabetes Management 301
Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Type 1 Diabetes 309
Chapter 21: Ten of the Latest Discoveries in Type 1 Diabetes 317
Part VI: Appendixes 325
Appendix A: Glossary 327
Appendix B: Resources for the Latest Information 335
Index 343
O autorze
Alan L. Rubin, MD, is a physician in private practice and the author of the bestselling Diabetes For Dummies, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies,
and Thyroid For Dummies.
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